Astri Letnes Janson

• Janson, Astri Letnes; Hellesø, Ragnhild; Norlyk, Annelise; Sulosaari, Virpi & Opheim, Randi (2026). Becoming an advanced practice nurse educator. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. ISSN 0031-3831. p. 1–11. doi: 10.1080/00313831.2026.2727859. Full text in Research Archive
• Janson, Astri Letnes; Opheim, Randi & Hellesø, Ragnhild (2023). Advanced practice nurse education in its infancy: an exploratory study of Norwegian higher education institutions’ program descriptions. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. ISSN 0031-3831. doi: 10.1080/00313831.2023.2185810. Full text in Research Archive
• Janson, Astri Letnes; Moen, Anne & Aure, Caroline Farsjø (2020). Introducing a nutritional app in supervised residences for independent living: Experiences of individuals with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers. JARID: Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities. ISSN 1360-2322. doi: 10.1111/jar.12784. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Background Dietary challenges are common among individuals with intellectual disability residing in supervised living in Norway, and this is a major risk factor for health problems. The aim of this study was to explore feasibility of the nutrition tablet app APPetitus, among persons with intellectual disability and their formal caregivers. Method Joint dyad interviews with residents and caregivers were conducted after five individuals with intellectual disability used APPetitus for eight weeks. Seven formal caregivers and managers participated in subsequent focus group interviews. Thematic analysis informed the data analysis. The study complies with the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ). Results The findings were mapped into three themes: APPetitus mediating nutritional conversations, residents' strategies to control the conversation and caregiver support as a required prerequisite for overall user comprehension. Conclusions The study demonstrates that a nutritional app can contribute to and normalize nutritional conversations, and empower residents to participate.

• Janson, Astri Letnes; Moen, Anne & Fuglerud, Kristin Skeide (2020). Design of the capable health empowerment tool: Citizens' needs and expectations. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. ISSN 0926-9630. 270, p. 926–930. doi: 10.3233/SHTI200297. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  It is important but difficult for citizens to gain a proper overview of their health-related information. The CAPABLE project aims to create a digital tool that enable citizens to actively utilize their clinical and personal health information to manage medication, improve nutrition, and facilitate health services coordination. 57 participants have participated in various user-centered co-creation activities. A key finding of citizen’s needs and expectations is that citizens are positive about such a tool provided it is easy to use and requires minimal work. Especially, opportunities to collect and utilize already existing digital health information, having access to personalized and relevant checklists and personalized resources, and be able to share health information with health personnel and others according to their own trust and privacy preferences. Involving other stakeholders to ensure integration with other systems is of principal importance to fulfil citizens’ expectations of integration and automatization.

• Fuglerud, Kristin Skeide; Schulz, Trenton Wade; Janson, Astri Letnes & Moen, Anne (2020). Co-creating persona scenarios with diverse users enriching inclusive design. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN 0302-9743. 12188, p. 48–59. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-49282-3_4. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this article, we will examine personas as methodological approach and review some critiques about how its use may omit or stereotype users with disabilities or even restrict user involvement. We review previous persona creation methods and compare it to our approach where we involve diverse users directly in the personas creation process, to ensure more grounded personas. This approach has recently been refined in a project where we are building a tool aiming to give citizens more control over their health information. We discuss our experiences and offer some experience based guidelines for using our method.

• Moen, Anne; Janson, Astri Letnes & Farsjø, Caroline (2019). Eldre og ernæring. In Engeset, Dagrun; Torheim, Liv Elin & Øverby, Nina Cecilie (Ed.), Samfunnsernæring. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215030630. p. 81–84. Full text in Research Archive

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• Fuglerud, Kristin Skeide; Schulz, Trenton Wade; Janson, Astri Letnes & Moen, Anne (2020). Co-creating persona scenarios with diverse users enriching inclusive design. Springer. ISBN 9783030492823. 12 p. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-49282-3_4. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this article, we will examine personas as methodological approach and review some critiques about how its use may omit or stereotype users with disabilities or even restrict user involvement. We review previous persona creation methods and compare it to our approach where we involve diverse users directly in the personas creation process, to ensure more grounded personas. This approach has recently been refined in a project where we are building a tool aiming to give citizens more control over their health information. We discuss our experiences and offer some experience based guidelines for using our method.

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• Janson, Astri Letnes (2024). Utvikling av AKS-utdanningene i Norge: for fremtiden? Full text in Research Archive
• Janson, Astri Letnes; Opheim, Randi & Hellesø, Ragnhild (2023). Applying document analysis in nursing research – possibilities for understanding advanced practice nurse education. Full text in Research Archive
• Janson, Astri Letnes; Opheim, Randi & Hellesø, Ragnhild (2021). Kliniske masterutdanninger for sykepleiere. Kompetanseheving for primærhelsetjenesten? Full text in Research Archive
• Janson, Astri Letnes & Hurlen, Petter (2021). Pasienten ute av bildet? Erfaringer fra innovasjonsprosjektet CAPABLE. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Mye av helseinformasjonen er digitalisert og utveksles mellom personer som samarbeider om å yte helsehjelp. Pasienten er alltid i sentrum – i festtalene. I realiteten er pasienten kun en passiv observatør av egen helseinformasjon. Hva om man gir pasienten en digital kopi, ikke bare for egen lesning, men for eget bruk? Det er fokuset i innovasjonsprosjektet CAPABLE.

• Janson, Astri Letnes; Moen, Anne & Lunde, Lene (2020). En avatar som brobygger: fra forskningsfunn til pårørendestøtte. Full text in Research Archive
• Janson, Astri Letnes & Hurlen, Petter (2020). Mine data - også? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Kan folk flest bruke egne data til å fremme egen helse og mestre egen sykdom – og hvordan skulle det i så fall foregå? I CAPABLE-prosjektet studerer vi problemstillingen gjennom å utvikle en innbyggerløsning for å samle, bruke og dele egne helseopplysninger. Etter omtrent halvgått prosjekt har vi gjort oss erfaringer både om behovet for løsningen, om teknologiske utfordringer og om organisatoriske hindringer. Vi vil presentere funn så langt og veien videre.

• Janson, Astri Letnes; Moen, Anne & Hurlen, Petter (2019). CAPABLE: Empowering Citizens to Active Use of their Health Information. Full text in Research Archive
• Janson, Astri Letnes; Moen, Anne & Fuglerud, Kristin Skeide (2019). Design of the CAPABLE Prototype: Preliminary Results of Citizen Expectations. Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings. ISSN 1650-3686. 161, p. 181–181. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Having access to and opportunity to an overview of all personal health-related information is important to citizen health empowerment. Today, citizens can access subsets of their health information through dedicated, secure portals, manually enter information into specific apps of their choice or keep paper logs. The result is a mix of paper documents and digital snippets of exchanges and data in incompatible formats. This may be supplemented with ad-hoc strategies for interpretation and management. There is currently no simple way to collect, complement and control health information from multiple sources, institutions, services and systems, and thus no way to get a good overview and understanding of its implications. CAPABLE aims to create a tool that enable citizens to actively utilize their clinical and personal health information to manage medication, improve nutrition, and facilitate health services coordination.

• Janson, Astri Letnes (2019). CAPABLE - innbyggerstyrt digital helseinformasjon. Full text in Research Archive
• Janson, Astri Letnes; Moen, Anne & Fuglerud, Kristin Skeide (2019). Design of the CAPABLE Prototype: Preliminary Results of Citizen Expectations. Full text in Research Archive
• Britt, Haug May & Janson, Astri Letnes (2019). En ny helseapp er under utvikling. [Radio]. Radio Z - Spor 2. Full text in Research Archive
• Janson, Astri Letnes & Hurlen, Petter (2018). Capable: Empowering Citizens to Active Use of their Health Information. Full text in Research Archive
• Janson, Astri Letnes; Rosvold, Elin Olaug; Lunde, Lene & Moen, Anne (2018). MOOC -Styrke veiledningskompetanse i primærhelsetjenesten-. Full text in Research Archive

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