Invitation for Ph.D. defence RN, MCN, Vibeke Høgh

Living with Atrial Fibrillation- exploring the context, complexity and magnitude of

the patient perspective

Tuesday 29 November 2016, 1 pm in the Auditorium, Science and Innovation Center, Aalborg University Hospital

Søndre Skovvej 15, DK-9000 Aalborg

Vibeke HøghE-mail: vih@rn.dk AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Aalborg Atrial Fibrillation Study Group Department of Cardiology DK-9000 Aalborg

Supervisors

Professor Charlotte Delmar (Main supervisor), The Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg

University and Health, Department of Public Health, Nursing, Aarhus University

Associate Professor Kirsten Frederiksen, Health, Department of Public Health, Nursing, Aarhus University

Associate Professor Sam Riahi, Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University

Senior Bio-statistician Søren Lundbye-Christensen, Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital

Professor Kim Overvad, Department of Cardiology, Aalborg University Hospital and Health, Department of Public Health, Epidemiology, Aarhus University

Assessment committee

Associate Professor Kirsten Fonager (Chairman), The Faculty of Medicine, Department

of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark

Professor Inger Ekman, Director of University of Gothenburg Centre

About the Ph.D. dissertation

Atrial fibrillation is a serious health burden. The patient perspective of living with atrial fibrillation is important for the quality of care, be-cause the patient is the only one who experience the events in their journey as a whole.

Aiming to explore the complexity and magnitude of the context re-lated to the patient perspective, based on three papers in a case study design, this dissertation explores the patients’ quality of life, lived experience and self-reported health in the journey of living with atrial fibrillation.

By providing insight into the synergy of applying both qualitative and quantitative data sources in order to tell the full story about the patient perspective, this dissertation is an important contribution to the future development of care and treatment of patients living with atrial fibril-lation.

A missing link between sectors reveals a precarious situation for pa-tients with a potential risk of losing dignity and their safety to be put at stake. A person-centred and holistic perspective on the journey as an ongoing process of transition and across healthcare organisational boundaries is required for providing patients living with atrial fibrilla-tion with the needed individualised care and treatment. This perspect-ive is essential in order to respect patients’ ever-changing perspective between illness and wellbeing, uphold dignity, balance responsibility and strengthen the patient’s autonomy.

Knowledge from this dissertation is important across organisational sector boundaries in the healthcare system, for healthcare profession-als and researchers engaged in caring for patients living with atrial fibrillation, and other chronic conditions.

Invitation for Ph.D. defence

Aalborg University Hospital has the honour of inviting for Ph.D. defence for RN, MCN Vibeke Høgh,

Aalborg Atrial Fibrillation Study Group, Department of Cardiology

Living with Atrial Fibrillation - exploring the context, complexity, and magnitude

of the patient perspective

The public defence will take place Tuesday 29 November 2016, 1 pm in the Auditorium,

Science and Innovation Center, Aalborg University HospitalSøndre Skovvej 15, DK-9000 Aalborg

Aalborg University Hospital will host a reception after the defence.