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Alexandra Ullsten

Befattning: Affilierad forskare Organisation: Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper

E-post: alexandra.ullsten@oru.se

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Om Alexandra Ullsten

Alexandra Ullsten, filosofie doktor i musikvetenskap med inriktning musikterapi, är affilierad forskare vid Institutionen för Hälsovetenskaper på Örebro universitet. Alexandra är anställd som Musik- och bildterapeut vid Rehabiliteringen specialistvård på Centralsjukhuset i Karlstad, Region Värmland. Alexandras forskningsområde är i huvudsak inom familjecentrerad musikterapi som smärtlindring vid provtagning av nyfödda, för tidigt födda och sjuka fullgångna spädbarn med fokus på föräldraledda smärtlindrande interventioner som initieras och leds av föräldrarna så som föräldrars vaggsång i kombination med amning/hud-mot-hud-vård och beröring. Alexandra disputerade 2019 med avhandlingen” Singing, sharing, soothing: Family-centred music therapy during painful procedures in neonatal care”.

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Medlem i de internationella forskningsnätverken PEARL (Pain in Early Life) och PICH (Pain in Child Health).

Peer reviewer för Acta Paediatrica, Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, Paediatric & Neonatal Pain, Medicines, Health Psychology Report.

Medlem i Scientific Advisory Committee, för det internationella forskningsprojektet LongSTEP “Longitudinal Study of music Therapy’s Effectiveness on Premature infants and their parents”, Griegakademiets senter for musikkterapiforsking/NORCE, Universitetet i Bergen, Norge.

Pågående projekt

Forskargrupper

PEARL - smärta tidigt i livet

Publikationer

Artiklar i tidskrifter | Artiklar, forskningsöversikter | Doktorsavhandlingar, sammanläggningar | Kapitel i böcker, del av antologier | Konferensbidrag | Övrigt |

Artiklar i tidskrifter

Silberstein Katzeff, A. , Ligård, E. , Edlund, S. M. & Ullsten, A. (2024). Family-centered Music Therapy as Procedural Support in the Pediatric Outpatient Unit: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study. Music & Science.
Arribas, C. , Cavallaro, G. , Gonzalez, J. , Lagares, C. , Raffaeli, G. , Smits, A. , Simons, S. H. P. , Villamor, E. & et al. (2024). Global cross-sectional survey on neonatal pharmacologic sedation and analgesia practices and pain assessment tools: impact of the sociodemographic index (SDI). Pediatric Research.
Ullsten, A. , Campbell-Yeo, M. & Eriksson, M. (2024). Parent-led neonatal pain management: a narrative review and update of research and practices. Frontiers in Pain Research, 5.
Ullsten, A. (2024). Parents' live singing is a preventive and protective intervention for infants during painful procedures. Acta Paediatrica.
Ullsten, A. , Pölkki, T. & Ghetti, C. (2021). Parents as nurturing resources: A family integrated approach to music therapy for neonatal procedural support. Music and Medicine, 13 (2), 99-111.
Olsson, E. , Carlsen Misic, M. , Dovland Andersen, R. , Ericson, J. , Eriksson, M. , Thernström Blomqvist, Y. & Ullsten, A. (2020). Study protocol: parents as pain management in Swedish neonatal care - SWEpap, a multi-center randomized controlled trial. BMC Pediatrics, 20 (1).
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. & Axelin, A. (2019). O Parent, Where Art Thou?. Paediatric & Neonatal Pain, 1 (2), 53-55.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2018). Singing, sharing, soothing: Biopsychosocial rationales for parental infant directed singing in neonatal pain management: A theoretical approach. Music & Science, 1, 1-13.
Ullsten, A. , Hugosson, P. , Forsberg, M. , Forzelius, L. , Klässbo, M. , Olsson, E. , Volgsten, U. , Westrup, B. & et al. (2017). Efficacy of Live Lullaby Singing During Procedural Pain in Preterm and Term Neonates. Music and Medicine, 9 (2), 73-85.
Ullsten, A. (2017). Family-centred music intervention - an emotional factor that modulates, modifies and alleviates infants' pain experiences. Acta Paediatrica, 106 (3), 361-362.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2017). Live music therapy with lullaby singing as affective support during painful procedures: a case study with microanalysis. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 26 (2), 142-166.

Artiklar, forskningsöversikter

Ullsten, A. , Andreasson, M. & Eriksson, M. (2021). State of the Art in Parent-Delivered Pain-Relieving Interventions in Neonatal Care: A Scoping Review. Frontiers in Pediatrics , 9.

Doktorsavhandlingar, sammanläggningar

Ullsten, A. (2019). Singing, sharing, soothing: Family-centred music therapy during painful procedures in neonatal care. (Doctoral dissertation). (Sammanläggning) Örebro: Örebro University.

Kapitel i böcker, del av antologier

Ullsten, A. , Gaden, T. S. & Mangersnes, J. (2020). Development of family-centered care informing Nordic neonatal music therapy. I: Lars Ole Bonde & Kjersti Johansson, Music in paediatric hospitals: Nordic perspectives (ss. 1-23). Oslo: Norwegian Academy of Music.
Ullsten, A. (2020). Muzykoterapia z muzyką na żywo i śpiewaniem kołysanek jako wsparcie emocjonalne podczas bolesnych zabiegów: Uzasadnienie dla śpiewania piosenek w ramach leczenia bólu u noworodków [Live music therapy with lullaby singing as affective support during painful procedures: rationales for parental infant-directed singing in neonatal pain management]. I: Bieleninik, Ł.; Konieczna-Nowak, L., Muzykoterapia dzieci przedwcześnie urodzonych i ich rodzin: Teoria i praktyka (ss. 175-188). Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar.
Ullsten, A. , Gaden, T. S. & Mangersnes, J. (2020). Nordic Countries: Family-Centered Cultural Sensitivity: A Cornerstone in Neonatal Music Therapy Implementation. I: Helen Shoemark & Mark Ettenberger, Music Therapy in Neonatal Intensive Care: Influences of Culture. Dallas, TX: Barcelona Publishers.
Ullsten, A. , Söderström Gaden, T. & Mangersnes, J. (2019). Development of family-centred care informing Nordic neonatal music therapy. I: Lars Ole Bonde, Kjersti Johansson, Music in paediatric hospitals – Nordic perspectives (ss. 1-25). Oslo: CREMAH, Norwegian Academy of Music.

Konferensbidrag

Carlsen Misic, M. , Olsson, E. , Ericson, J. , Eriksson, M. , Thernström-Blomqvist, Y. & Ullsten, A. (2024). Parents as pain management in Swedish neonatal care – SWEpap. Konferensbidrag vid Swedish Conference on Ultra-Early Intervention, Lund, March 21, 2024.
Carlsen Misic, M. , Olsson, E. , Eriksson, M. , Ericson, J. & Ullsten, A. (2023). “Having my boy on my chest, humming to him, made us both very calm.”: Parents to new-born infants rated parent-delivered pain management as significantly meaningful during venepuncture. Konferensbidrag vid International Symposium on Pediatric Pain, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 1-4, 2023.
Ullsten, A. , Carlsen Misic, M. , Olsson, E. , Andersen, R. D. , Ericson, J. , Eriksson, M. & Thernström Blomqvist, Y. (2023). O parent where art thou?: Family-integrated music therapy forneonatal procedural support. Konferensbidrag vid The 17th World Congress of Music Therapy, Vancouver, Canada, July 24–29, 2023.
Carlsen Misic, M. , Olsson, E. , Eriksson, M. , Ericson, J. & Ullsten, A. (2023). Parents to new-born infants rated parent-delivered pain management as significantly meaningful during venepuncture. I: Örebro University's Nobel Day Festivities Book of Abstracts. Konferensbidrag vid Nobel Day Festivites.
Carlsen Misic, M. , Ullsten, A. , Olsson, E. , Andersen, R. D. , Ericson, J. , Eriksson, M. & Thernström Blomqvist, Y. (2022). Balancing power by including parents as co-researchers: Live parental singing, breastfeeding, skin-to-skin-contact as procedural support in Swedish neonatal pain care. Konferensbidrag vid The 12th European Music Therapy Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland,[DIGITAL] June 8-12, 2022.
Carlsen Misic, M. , Olsson, E. , Ericson, J. , Thernström Blomqvist, Y. , Andersen Dovland, R. , Eriksson, M. & Ullsten, A. (2022). Parent-delivered pain-relieving interventions in Swedish neonatal care, a mixed methods study. Konferensbidrag vid 13th International Symposium on Pediatric Pain(ISPP 2022), New Zealand,[DIGITAL], March 24-27, 2022.
Ullsten, A. (2022). Parents as nurturing resources: A family integrated approach to music therapy for neonatal procedural support.. Konferensbidrag vid 1st International stand-alone Symposium on Music Therapy with Families, 23-25 September 2022, Vienna, Austria.
Ullsten, A. (2022). Parents as pain management: Live parental singing, breastfeeding and skin-to-skin-contact as procedural support in Swedish neonatal pain care. Konferensbidrag vid 6ème congrès Douleur néonatale “Tout ce qui pique” [6th congress on neonatal pain], 2022-02-24, Brussels.
McMurtry, C. M. , Provenzi, L. & Ullsten, A. (2022). Speak Up! The Parent’s Voice and Musical Presence During Painful Procedures in Neonatal and Paediatric Care. Konferensbidrag vid 13th International Symposium on Pediatric Pain (ISPP 2022), New Zealand,[DIGITAL], March 24-27, 2022.
Ullsten, A. , Ettenberger, M. & Haslbeck, F. (2022). “The rocky horror NICU show” - challenges and potentials of disturbances in neonatal music therapy: A forum theatre workshop. Konferensbidrag vid The 12th European Music Therapy Conference 8-12 June 2022 Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Andreasson, M. , Eriksson, M. & Ullsten, A. (2021). State of the art in parent-delivered pain-relieving interventions in neonatal care. Konferensbidrag vid The 8th SCENE Symposium, Tallin, Estonia, May 19-20, 2021 [Hybrid: Digital and on site].
Ullsten, A. , Mangersnes, J. & Söderström Gaden, T. (2019). A Nordic perspective on family-centered neonatal music therapy. Konferensbidrag vid 11th European music therapy conference, Aalborg, Denmark, June 26-30, 2019.
Ullsten, A. , Söderström Gaden, T. & Mangersnes, J. (2019). Development of family-centred care informing Nordic neonatal music therapy: Music in Paediatric Hospitals in the Nordic Countries. Konferensbidrag vid 11th European music therapy conference, Aalborg, Denmark, June 26-30, 2019.
Ullsten, A. , Volgsten, U. , Klässbo, M. & Eriksson, M. (2019). Live lullaby singing during painful procedures in preterm and term infants. Konferensbidrag vid 12th International Symposium on Pediatric Pain (ISPP 2019), Basel, Switzerland, June 16-20, 2019.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2018). Family-centred music therapy during painful procedures in neonatal care. Konferensbidrag vid PEARL/PICH2Go-meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 25-27, 2018.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2018). Family-centred music therapy during painful procedures in neonatal care. Konferensbidrag vid 9th Nordic Music Therapy Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, August 8-12, 2018.
Ullsten, A. , Hugoson, P. , Forsberg, M. , Forzelius, L. , Klässbo, M. , Olsson, E. , Volgsten, U. , Westrup, B. & et al. (2017). Efficacy of Live Lullaby Singing During Procedural Pain in Preterm and Term Neonates. Konferensbidrag vid Forum Värmland 2017, Landstinget i Värmland och Karlstads universitet, Karlstad, Sweden, February 14, 2017.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2017). Live music therapy with lullaby singing during painful procedures in neonatal care. Konferensbidrag vid Man and Sound Environment 2017, Ljudmiljöcentrum, Lunds universitet, Lund, November 16, 2017.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2016). Live music therapy with lullaby singing as affective support during venepuncture. A case study with microanalysis of two premature born infants. I: Lars Berglund, Musikforskning i dag, Linnéuniversitetet, Växjö, 14–16 juni 2016. Konferensbidrag vid Musikforskning i dag, Linnéuniversitetet, Växjö, 14–16 juni, 2016. (ss. 31-31). Växjö, Sweden: Linnéuniversitetet.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2016). Live music therapy with lullaby singing during painful procedures in neonatal care. Konferensbidrag vid 10th European Music Therapy Conference Vienna 2016, Vienna, Austria, July 5-9, 2016.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2016). Live music therapy with lullaby singing during painful procedures in neonatal care. I: Nordisk tidskrift for musikkterapi - Nordic Journal of Music Therapy. Konferensbidrag vid 10th European Music Therapy Conference Vienna 2016, 5-9 July, 2016, Vienna, Austria. (ss. 79- Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2016). Live music therapy with lullaby singing during painful procedures in neonatal care. Konferensbidrag vid Vårmöte i Perinatologi. 14 April, 2016, Örebro.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2015). Live music therapy with lullaby singing as affective support during venepuncture. A case study with microanalysis of two premature born infants.. Konferensbidrag vid The 8th Nordic Music Therapy Congress, Oslo, Norway, 5th - 8th August, 2015.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2015). Live music therapy with lullaby singing as affective support during venepuncture. A case study with microanalysis of two premature born infants.. Konferensbidrag vid The 10th International Forum on Pediatric Pain (IFPP), Nova Scotia, Canada, October 1-4th, 2015.
Ullsten, A. , Eriksson, M. , Klässbo, M. & Volgsten, U. (2015). Live music therapy with lullaby singing as affective support during venepuncture: A case study with microanalysis of two premature born infants. Konferensbidrag vid Nobel Day Festivities at School of Health and Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden, December 10, 2015.

Övrigt

Ullsten, A. , Andreasson, M. & Eriksson, M. (2020). State of the art in parent-driven pain and stress relieving interventions in neonatal care – a scoping review. Zenodo.