Project

Deeper insight into the patient's experience of long-term wounds is crucial for creating better treatment methods and increasing the quality of life. We face challenges related to the lack of dedicated wound-specific quality of life forms in Norway and limited research in this area. To meet this challenge, a project is being led whose aim is to translate and validate two internationally recognized quality of life forms for wounds: Wound-QoL and the Cardiff Wound Impact Schedule.

These wound-specific quality of life forms provide a unique opportunity to gather information about the patient's perspective and subjective experiences of the disease's consequences. By giving clinicians access to self-reported information, the forms facilitate a more individualized, patient-centered approach, which in turn promotes health and quality of life. In addition, the forms serve as valuable tools in research. By surveying the quality of life of those living with long-term wounds, the project can focus on this patient group and contribute to improvements in treatment options and reimbursement schemes.

Members of the research group and collaboration partners

The main supervisor is associate professor Brita Pukstad IKOM, NTNU. Co-supervisors are Britt-Karin Utvær ILU, NTNU and Tone Marte Ljoså ISM, USN. Monica Schwartz, PhD scholar, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU/Surgical Clinic, Namsos Hospital and Health Nord-Trøndelag.