Anita Salamonsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 203263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anita Salamonsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anita |
| FAMILY NAME | Salamonsen |
| SIGNATURE | SALAMONSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | UiT The Arctic University of Norway |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6036-8729 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Youth reorientation following forced migration to Norway: Mental health, cultural navigation, and the need for supportive others
Youth who have experienced conflict, loss, forced displacement, and resettlement may have increased vulnerability to mental health problems. The purpose of this study was to explore how youth with a background as refugees originating from East and Central Africa and the Middle East living in Norway understand mental health and practice self-care strategies. Eighteen youths participated in semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using refle…
Mental Health Services for Adolescents With Status as Asylum Seekers or Refugees: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives
Clear recommendations for how to best adapt mental health services for adolescents with a background as asylum seekers and refugees are lacking. This study therefore explored healthcare professionals’ experiences and perspectives on mental health needs of these groups of youth in Norway. The objectives were to explore healthcare professionals’ perspectives on what is needed for adolescents with status as asylum seekers or refugees to seek profess…
Exploring the Impact of Interview Location on Knowledge Development
In ethnographic and participatory studies, the study location is often claimed to have an obvious significance, whereas, in the methodology literature on qualitative interviews, this aspect is frequently treated as a pragmatic issue. Based on this background, there are claims that the location of an interview should be understood as a fundamental, active aspect of the research process as well as a sensitizing concept. Considering this ambition, t…
Yoik in Sami elderly and dementia care - a potential for culturally sensitive music therapy
Introduction: The positive impact of familiar, individualized and patient-preferred music in dementia care is acknowledged in the literature. However, traditional indigenous music practices in care contexts are less studied. This study focuses on yoik, a traditional vocal music of the indigenous Sami people of Fennoscandia. The aims of this exploratory study were to investigate key participants’ experiences with yoik in care settings, as well as …
Medical pluralism in the aftermath of cancer: Health Seeking Actions and Cancer Patients' Shaping of Trajectories to Healing
Improved treatment methods for cancer are increasing the number of survivals in Norway. In turn, the group of people struggling with late effects after the treatment is growing. Late effects could be physical, psychological or existential conditions caused by treatment or the experience of illness. This qualitative study explores health-seeking actions among nine Norwegian people with cancer, and how they shape their trajectories to healing. Vari…
Epistemological challenges in contemporary Western healthcare systems exemplified by people's widespread use of complementary and alternative medicine
Modern Western public healthcare systems offer predominantly publicly subsidized healthcare traditionally based on biomedicine as the most important basis to cure persons who suffer from disorders of somatic or psychiatric nature. To which extent this epistemological position is suitable for this purpose is under scientific debate and challenged by some people's personal understandings of health and illness, their individual illness experiences a…
Youth blogging and serious illness
In recent years, a growing number of young people who experience illness tend to blog about it. In this paper, we question whether and how illness blogs illustrate the intercommunicative aspect of blogging by bringing forth both the literary concept of the implied reader and the sociological concepts of empowerment and agency in the analysis. We argue that young people blogging about serious illness demonstrate the inherent intercommunicative pot…
Modes of Embodiment in Breast Cancer Patients Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Breast cancer patients are frequent users of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). They often have complex reasons for, and experiences from, their use of CAM. Bodily experiences are important and almost unexplored elements in CAM use. Our aim was to explore the meaning and importance of bodily experiences among breast cancer patients who were using CAM as a supplement or an alternative to conventional treatment (CT). Our findings based o…
Exploring the Impact of Interview Location on Knowledge Development
In ethnographic and participatory studies, the study location is often claimed to have an obvious significance, whereas, in the methodology literature on qualitative interviews, this aspect is frequently treated as a pragmatic issue. Based on this background, there are claims that the location of an interview should be understood as a fundamental, active aspect of the research process as well as a sensitizing concept. Considering this ambition, t…
Youth blogging and serious illness
In recent years, a growing number of young people who experience illness tend to blog about it. In this paper, we question whether and how illness blogs illustrate the intercommunicative aspect of blogging by bringing forth both the literary concept of the implied reader and the sociological concepts of empowerment and agency in the analysis. We argue that young people blogging about serious illness demonstrate the inherent intercommunicative pot…
Medical pluralism in the aftermath of cancer: Health Seeking Actions and Cancer Patients' Shaping of Trajectories to Healing
Improved treatment methods for cancer are increasing the number of survivals in Norway. In turn, the group of people struggling with late effects after the treatment is growing. Late effects could be physical, psychological or existential conditions caused by treatment or the experience of illness. This qualitative study explores health-seeking actions among nine Norwegian people with cancer, and how they shape their trajectories to healing. Vari…
Modes of Embodiment in Breast Cancer Patients Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Breast cancer patients are frequent users of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). They often have complex reasons for, and experiences from, their use of CAM. Bodily experiences are important and almost unexplored elements in CAM use. Our aim was to explore the meaning and importance of bodily experiences among breast cancer patients who were using CAM as a supplement or an alternative to conventional treatment (CT). Our findings based o…
Yoik in Sami elderly and dementia care - a potential for culturally sensitive music therapy
Introduction: The positive impact of familiar, individualized and patient-preferred music in dementia care is acknowledged in the literature. However, traditional indigenous music practices in care contexts are less studied. This study focuses on yoik, a traditional vocal music of the indigenous Sami people of Fennoscandia. The aims of this exploratory study were to investigate key participants’ experiences with yoik in care settings, as well as …
Epistemological challenges in contemporary Western healthcare systems exemplified by people's widespread use of complementary and alternative medicine
Modern Western public healthcare systems offer predominantly publicly subsidized healthcare traditionally based on biomedicine as the most important basis to cure persons who suffer from disorders of somatic or psychiatric nature. To which extent this epistemological position is suitable for this purpose is under scientific debate and challenged by some people's personal understandings of health and illness, their individual illness experiences a…
Modes of Embodiment in Breast Cancer Patients Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Breast cancer patients are frequent users of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). They often have complex reasons for, and experiences from, their use of CAM. Bodily experiences are important and almost unexplored elements in CAM use. Our aim was to explore the meaning and importance of bodily experiences among breast cancer patients who were using CAM as a supplement or an alternative to conventional treatment (CT). Our findings based o…
Youth blogging and serious illness
In recent years, a growing number of young people who experience illness tend to blog about it. In this paper, we question whether and how illness blogs illustrate the intercommunicative aspect of blogging by bringing forth both the literary concept of the implied reader and the sociological concepts of empowerment and agency in the analysis. We argue that young people blogging about serious illness demonstrate the inherent intercommunicative pot…
Epistemological challenges in contemporary Western healthcare systems exemplified by people's widespread use of complementary and alternative medicine
Modern Western public healthcare systems offer predominantly publicly subsidized healthcare traditionally based on biomedicine as the most important basis to cure persons who suffer from disorders of somatic or psychiatric nature. To which extent this epistemological position is suitable for this purpose is under scientific debate and challenged by some people's personal understandings of health and illness, their individual illness experiences a…
Medical pluralism in the aftermath of cancer: Health Seeking Actions and Cancer Patients' Shaping of Trajectories to Healing
Improved treatment methods for cancer are increasing the number of survivals in Norway. In turn, the group of people struggling with late effects after the treatment is growing. Late effects could be physical, psychological or existential conditions caused by treatment or the experience of illness. This qualitative study explores health-seeking actions among nine Norwegian people with cancer, and how they shape their trajectories to healing. Vari…
Yoik in Sami elderly and dementia care - a potential for culturally sensitive music therapy
Introduction: The positive impact of familiar, individualized and patient-preferred music in dementia care is acknowledged in the literature. However, traditional indigenous music practices in care contexts are less studied. This study focuses on yoik, a traditional vocal music of the indigenous Sami people of Fennoscandia. The aims of this exploratory study were to investigate key participants’ experiences with yoik in care settings, as well as …
Exploring the Impact of Interview Location on Knowledge Development
In ethnographic and participatory studies, the study location is often claimed to have an obvious significance, whereas, in the methodology literature on qualitative interviews, this aspect is frequently treated as a pragmatic issue. Based on this background, there are claims that the location of an interview should be understood as a fundamental, active aspect of the research process as well as a sensitizing concept. Considering this ambition, t…
Youth reorientation following forced migration to Norway: Mental health, cultural navigation, and the need for supportive others
Youth who have experienced conflict, loss, forced displacement, and resettlement may have increased vulnerability to mental health problems. The purpose of this study was to explore how youth with a background as refugees originating from East and Central Africa and the Middle East living in Norway understand mental health and practice self-care strategies. Eighteen youths participated in semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using refle…
Mental Health Services for Adolescents With Status as Asylum Seekers or Refugees: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives
Clear recommendations for how to best adapt mental health services for adolescents with a background as asylum seekers and refugees are lacking. This study therefore explored healthcare professionals’ experiences and perspectives on mental health needs of these groups of youth in Norway. The objectives were to explore healthcare professionals’ perspectives on what is needed for adolescents with status as asylum seekers or refugees to seek profess…
Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies (3 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Mental health (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)