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Identifying Flowing Change and Learning Towards Healthy Ageing: An Action Research Study
University West, Department of Health Sciences, Section for health promotion and care sciences. Centre for Gerodontology, Public Dental Service, Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg (SWE). (KAMAIL)
University West, School of Business, Economics and IT, Divison of Informatics. (KAMAIL)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1421-868X
Centre for Gerodontology, Public Dental Service, Region Västra Götaland, Gothenburg (SWE); R&D Department, Primary Health Care, Regionhälsan, Region Västra Götaland, Vänersborg (SWE).
R&D Department, Primary Health Care, Regionhälsan, Region Västra Götaland, Vänersborg (SWE).
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2024 (English)In: Journal of Health Management, ISSN 0972-0634, E-ISSN 0973-0729, Vol. 26, no 5, p. 733-742Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This article identifies change and learning within a complex ecosystem aiming for healthy ageing through action research. Learning, innovation and progress are all referred to as change. Reflecting on a surprisingly good outcome within a collaborative project between dental care and municipal healthcare, fearing that change and learning from a predetermined outcome could overshadow elements that enabled change, a theoretical flow approach was used as an entrance to perspectives of change and learning. Flow approach made it possible to sense movement, focusing on timing, attentionality and undergoing.

A research question was formulated: What change and learning outcomes can be identified through the lens of a flow approach? By looking beyond the project, focusing on what enabled change, actions could be traced that might have been overlooked in the absence of a flow approach. Although oral health is important for health, interprofessional collaborative projects have, to our knowledge, never been explored using a flow approach. This article contributes to theory by broadening perspectives on change and learning. Long-term interprofessional collaboration became evident as an enabling factor when mapping the emergence of change through a flow approach aiming for healthy ageing.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2024. Vol. 26, no 5, p. 733-742
Keywords [en]
Collaboration, flow of action, interprofessional learning, older adults, oral health, work-integrated learning
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Educational Sciences Pedagogy
Research subject
Work-Integrated Learning
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-22850DOI: 10.1177/09720634241297449ISI: 001366443100004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85211182652OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hv-22850DiVA, id: diva2:1924190
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This research was funded by the Local Research and Development Board of Fyrbodal, Region Västra Götaland, Sweden, the Health Promotion Research Funding, Region Västra Götaland, Sweden and the Swedish Order of Freemasons, Grand Lodge of Sweden.

Available from: 2025-01-03 Created: 2025-01-03 Last updated: 2025-09-30
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1. Oral Health Care Planning: A conceptual model based oncollaboration andperson-centred care
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2025 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[sv]
Munhälsoplanering. : En konceptuell modell baserad påsamverkan och person-centrerad vård
Abstract [sv]

Oral hälsa är avgörande för allmän hälsa. I både teori och praktik tycks dock aspekter gällande oral hälsa vara svåra att integrera med övergripande vårdprocesser. Särskilt äldre personer med risk för skörhet kan drabbas av dålig oral hälsa, vilket leder till minskad livskvalitet. Globalt har hinder för integrering av oral hälsa och allmän hälsa konstaterats på mikro-, meso- och makronivå i samhället. Därmed är det indicerat att utforska dessa tidigare beskrivna hinder med hjälp av teorier och praktiker för lärande vid munhälsoplanering. Bristande oral hälsa kan till stor del förebyggas, och en förutsättning för det tycks vara lärande. Syftet med denna avhandling är således att utveckla en konceptuell modell för personcentrerad munhälsoplanering genom arbetsintegrerat lärande. Baserat på teorin om expansivt lärande och en övergripande aktionsforskningsansats, samlades data in genom tre interventioner som byggde på samverkan mellan äldre personer och personal från tandvård och kommunal omsorg. Resultatet baseras på mixade metoder, inklusive totalt 50 individuella intervjuer (Studie I, II och III) med äldre personer (n=24), tandhygienister (n=13) och sjuksköterskor (n=13) i kommunal verksamhet. Därutöver ingick registerdata, en kursutvärdering samt protokoll från multi-professionella möten i kommunal verksamhet (Studie II). Dessutom omfattar data transkriptioner från 24 teambaserade munhälsobedömningar som genomfördes i äldre personers hemmiljö (Studie III). I Studie IV föreslås en plan för en utvärdering av en ny personcentrerad, multi-professionell arbetsmodell för munhälsobedömningar i hemmiljö. Interventionerna, som bygger på samverkan, verkar främja en ny typ av aktörskap som gör det möjligt för deltagare att lära sig vad som är värdefullt för olika aktörer. En förutsättning för detta är att på olika sätt ha tillgång till ett gemensamt område där kunskap kan integreras. Med de förutsättningarna, kan lärande i samverkan möjliggöras där deltagare kan hjälpas åt att återuppfinna sig själva och vidga sina egna och andras horisonter. vii Baserat på de övergripande resultaten föreslås slutligen en konceptuell modell som innehåller nyckelfaktorer för personcentrerad munhälsoplanering i samverkan. Modellen representerar alla deltagares unika kunskaper, formad av sin omgivning. Varje deltagare bidrar med sin egen förståelse, formad av sitt sammanhang och sin historia. Deltagarnas kollektiva, gemensamma förståelse har potential att influera munhälsoplanering genom att skräddarsy den till att möta varje deltagares specifika behov, värderingar och preferenser.

Abstract [en]

The body of evidence about how oral health and general health are intertwined is growing. However, aspects of oral health care seem to be difficult to integrate with general health care processes. Especially older adults with frailty are at risk of poor oral health and thereby also reduced quality of life. Globally, barriers to integration of oral health care aspect in health care processes have been identified on micro-, meso- and macro-levels. Notably, the prerequisites for integration all seem to rely on learning. Therefore, much could be gained from approaching these barriers to integration through theories and practices of learning when doing health care planning. As such, the aim of this thesis is to develop a conceptual model for person-centred oral health care planning through work-integrated learning. Using the theory of expansive learning and with an overall action research approach, data was gathered through three interventions based on collaboration between older adults and staff in dental and municipal care. Mixed methods we reused including individual interviews (Study I, II and III), totalling 50 interviews with older adults (n=24), dental hygienists (n=13) and nurses (n=13) in municipal care organisations. Additional data include data from a Swedish quality register, a course evaluation and protocols from multi-professional meetings in municipal care organisations (Study II) as well as transcriptions from 24 teambased oral assessments conducted in older adults’ home settings (Study III). In Study IV, a plan for an evaluation of a new person-centred, multiprofessional work model for oral assessments in home settings is put forward. The interventions based on collaboration appear to foster a novel type of agency, allowing all participants to understand what holds value for each party. A prerequisite for this is to, in different ways, share translational areas for knowledge to be integrated. Under these conditions, learning can be characterised as expansive and empowering, prompting participants to reinvent themselves and broaden their own and others’ horizons. From the overall findings a conceptual model with key determinants to facilitate person-centred, collaborative oral health care planning is proposed. It schematically represents the role of all participants and their unique context. Each participant brings their own understanding, shaped and created by their contexts and history. The participants’ shared, collective understanding has the potential to influence oral health care planning by tailoring it to meet the specific needs, values and preferences of each participant.

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Trollhättan: University West, 2025. p. 84
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PhD Thesis: University West ; 75
Keywords
change; collaboration; expansive learning; health; interprofessional learning; older adults; oral health; person-centred care; work-integrated learning, arbetsintegrerat lärande; expansivt lärande; förändring; hälsa; interprofessionellt lärande; person-centrering; samverkan; äldre personer
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Nursing Odontology
Research subject
Work-Integrated Learning; NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE, Nursing science
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urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-23299 (URN)978-91-89969-25-4 (ISBN)978-91-89969-24-7 (ISBN)
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2025-05-28, J111, Högskolan Väst, Gustava Melins Gata 2, 461 85, Trollhättan, 13:00 (English)
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