Karen Synne Groven
Biographic Data
| ID | 2491799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Synne Groven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen Synne |
| FAMILY NAME | Groven |
| SIGNATURE | GROVEN K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5208-0714 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Interprofessional Collaboration
This study explores how interprofessional collaboration is enacted to support activity competence and opportunities for participation of children with physical disabilities. Based on participant observation, the data consist of field notes. Theoretically, the analysis is framed by Anne Edwards’ writings on the relational turn in expertise, especially her concepts of relational expertise, common knowledge, and relational agency. The results illust…
A Sense of Security and Cohesion
Mental health issues are increasing in the young population, which emphasizes the need for health-promoting initiatives. Social support is argued to be important in promoting mental health among young people. The aim of this study was to explore how young people experience social support in their everyday lives, and how such support helps them navigate mental health issues. Twelve in-depth interviews were conducted with participants aged 13 to 16…
Facilitators and barriers to communication in rehabilitation services across healthcare levels in Norway
Background: People with problems in functioning following severe injury or illness often need multiple and combined interventions in their rehabilitation processes. In these processes, communication and collaboration between the involved healthcare professionals are essential to achieve integrated services. Despite efforts in research and policy, collaboration across hospital and primary healthcare services and within the primary healthcare setti…
Working mothers’ Bodily and Temporal Experiences of Caring for Small Children
Distributed decision-making for lumbar spine surgery
Lower back pain with or without radiating leg pain is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Several treatment options are available, and this article aims to understand better the decision-making involved in selecting appropriate treatments. A qualitative interview study was conducted with patients with lumbar spinal disorders and neurosurgeons specialising in spine surgery. Both groups of participants were asked to reflect on the decision-mak…
Navigating Conflicting Ideals of Masculinity
Vulvodynia, a long-term genital pain disorder with a high lifetime prevalence, profoundly impacts both the affected women and their partners. However, the experiences of these partners have been under-researched. Using Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis, this qualitative study explored the experiences of male partners of women with vulvodynia. In individual interviews with seven men (20-32 years), four themes were identified: "Trying to be a go…
Bodies in lockdown
Thirteen women (16-30 years) storied their experiences about the process of falling severely ill with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome during childhood and adolescence. We performed a narrative analysis informed by phenomenology which yielded three central themes: The active and meaningful life I used to live; gradually developing unhomeliness and feeling pushed toward the edge; and left abandoned on the sidelines. Out of the in…
Toward an inclusive evidence-based practice model
Evidence-based practice (EBP) and the evidence-based practice model (EBPM) are currently taken for granted as a guide for teaching and learning ‘best practice’ in higher education health care programs. As health care educators and researchers, we argue for enhancement of the model by inclusion of a broader conception of professional knowledge, including ethical care. In this conceptual paper, we draw on hermeneutic inquiry to reflect on theoretic…
Recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome as an intra-active process
In this article, we draw on the narrative of a woman who has recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) to explore the process of recovering from a debilitating illness. Inspired by Julia Kristeva's notion of the body as a complex biocultural fact and by Karen Barad's posthuman theory (also termed agential realism), we adopt an intra-active approach to the woman's recovery process, revealing the role played by human as well as nonhuman entitie…
Ethical sensitivity in co-production
During the past years, co-production in medical and health related research has gained more focus. The purpose is to ensure that researchers - and the individuals that the research is relevant and has consequences for - will develop and produce the research, and accordingly also, the results together. In our understanding, the eventual success of co-production in research has to be based on some sort of sensitivity to and negotiation as to the pe…
How do we learn professional ethics? Professional competences, embodiment and ethics in physiotherapy education in Norway
This paper aims to enhance the understanding of how physiotherapy students develop professional ethical insight. The empirical data is based on participant observations and in-depth interviews with first-year students attending skills training classes in one of Norway’s four physiotherapy bachelor programmes. Theoretically, this paper is framed within Merleau-Ponty’s and Daly’s embodied approaches to ethics. The analysis pays special attention to…
The experience of regaining weight following weight loss surgery
Weight loss surgery (WLS) is gaining ground as the most effective treatment against obesity. In the literature, however, we see a divide among individuals who have undergone WLS based on the amount of weight lost and maintained: successful and unsuccessful patients. In this article, we focus on the notion of unsuccessful patients-exploring the accounts of three women who have regained weight following WLS. In doing so, we endeavor to better under…
Will I ever be a true woman?” An exploration of the experiences of women with vestibulodynia
In this study we explored the experiences of Norwegian women living with vestibulodynia, a chronic disease affecting young women all over the world. Using a phenomenological approach we conducted in-depth interviews with eight women who had struggled with vestibulodynia for several years. Our findings reveal that their efforts to fulfill their partners' sexual desires as well as their own represented an encompassing ongoing process. In addition, …
Happily-ever-after
Advertising for weight loss surgery (WLS) is typically but not exclusively targeted toward women. The surgery is portrayed as the most effective way to free oneself from the stigmas and health risks associated with large bodies. WLS clinics routinely feature success stories by former patients that include before and after pictures and personal narratives. Because these testimonials are cherry-picked by the clinics, naturally they do not represent…
Then I Can Become Very Ill”
Over the past 5 years, interest in weight-loss surgery has increased in tandem with the growing obesity epidemic in both Western and developing countries. In particular, scholars have documented the health promoting aspects of weight-loss surgery. Nevertheless, few researchers have explored the side effects, most prominently "dumping," that frequently accompany weight-loss surgery. Building on the one previous qualitative study of dumping, I focu…
Changing Bodies, Changing Habits
Patients undergoing weight-loss surgery are increasingly encouraged to change their lifestyles. Dietary interventions combined with physical exercise interventions are regarded as the most effective way to ensure that they do not regain the weight they have lost. Little research however, has been done on how patients who have had the surgery actually experience the process of changing their exercise habits. To help fill this gap, we investigated …
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Changing Bodies, Changing Habits
Patients undergoing weight-loss surgery are increasingly encouraged to change their lifestyles. Dietary interventions combined with physical exercise interventions are regarded as the most effective way to ensure that they do not regain the weight they have lost. Little research however, has been done on how patients who have had the surgery actually experience the process of changing their exercise habits. To help fill this gap, we investigated …
Then I Can Become Very Ill”
Over the past 5 years, interest in weight-loss surgery has increased in tandem with the growing obesity epidemic in both Western and developing countries. In particular, scholars have documented the health promoting aspects of weight-loss surgery. Nevertheless, few researchers have explored the side effects, most prominently "dumping," that frequently accompany weight-loss surgery. Building on the one previous qualitative study of dumping, I focu…
Will I ever be a true woman?” An exploration of the experiences of women with vestibulodynia
In this study we explored the experiences of Norwegian women living with vestibulodynia, a chronic disease affecting young women all over the world. Using a phenomenological approach we conducted in-depth interviews with eight women who had struggled with vestibulodynia for several years. Our findings reveal that their efforts to fulfill their partners' sexual desires as well as their own represented an encompassing ongoing process. In addition, …
Happily-ever-after
Advertising for weight loss surgery (WLS) is typically but not exclusively targeted toward women. The surgery is portrayed as the most effective way to free oneself from the stigmas and health risks associated with large bodies. WLS clinics routinely feature success stories by former patients that include before and after pictures and personal narratives. Because these testimonials are cherry-picked by the clinics, naturally they do not represent…
The experience of regaining weight following weight loss surgery
Weight loss surgery (WLS) is gaining ground as the most effective treatment against obesity. In the literature, however, we see a divide among individuals who have undergone WLS based on the amount of weight lost and maintained: successful and unsuccessful patients. In this article, we focus on the notion of unsuccessful patients-exploring the accounts of three women who have regained weight following WLS. In doing so, we endeavor to better under…
How do we learn professional ethics? Professional competences, embodiment and ethics in physiotherapy education in Norway
This paper aims to enhance the understanding of how physiotherapy students develop professional ethical insight. The empirical data is based on participant observations and in-depth interviews with first-year students attending skills training classes in one of Norway’s four physiotherapy bachelor programmes. Theoretically, this paper is framed within Merleau-Ponty’s and Daly’s embodied approaches to ethics. The analysis pays special attention to…
Recovering from chronic fatigue syndrome as an intra-active process
In this article, we draw on the narrative of a woman who has recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) to explore the process of recovering from a debilitating illness. Inspired by Julia Kristeva's notion of the body as a complex biocultural fact and by Karen Barad's posthuman theory (also termed agential realism), we adopt an intra-active approach to the woman's recovery process, revealing the role played by human as well as nonhuman entitie…
Ethical sensitivity in co-production
During the past years, co-production in medical and health related research has gained more focus. The purpose is to ensure that researchers - and the individuals that the research is relevant and has consequences for - will develop and produce the research, and accordingly also, the results together. In our understanding, the eventual success of co-production in research has to be based on some sort of sensitivity to and negotiation as to the pe…
Toward an inclusive evidence-based practice model
Evidence-based practice (EBP) and the evidence-based practice model (EBPM) are currently taken for granted as a guide for teaching and learning ‘best practice’ in higher education health care programs. As health care educators and researchers, we argue for enhancement of the model by inclusion of a broader conception of professional knowledge, including ethical care. In this conceptual paper, we draw on hermeneutic inquiry to reflect on theoretic…
Bodies in lockdown
Thirteen women (16-30 years) storied their experiences about the process of falling severely ill with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome during childhood and adolescence. We performed a narrative analysis informed by phenomenology which yielded three central themes: The active and meaningful life I used to live; gradually developing unhomeliness and feeling pushed toward the edge; and left abandoned on the sidelines. Out of the in…
Navigating Conflicting Ideals of Masculinity
Vulvodynia, a long-term genital pain disorder with a high lifetime prevalence, profoundly impacts both the affected women and their partners. However, the experiences of these partners have been under-researched. Using Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis, this qualitative study explored the experiences of male partners of women with vulvodynia. In individual interviews with seven men (20-32 years), four themes were identified: "Trying to be a go…
Facilitators and barriers to communication in rehabilitation services across healthcare levels in Norway
Background: People with problems in functioning following severe injury or illness often need multiple and combined interventions in their rehabilitation processes. In these processes, communication and collaboration between the involved healthcare professionals are essential to achieve integrated services. Despite efforts in research and policy, collaboration across hospital and primary healthcare services and within the primary healthcare setti…
Working mothers’ Bodily and Temporal Experiences of Caring for Small Children
Distributed decision-making for lumbar spine surgery
Lower back pain with or without radiating leg pain is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Several treatment options are available, and this article aims to understand better the decision-making involved in selecting appropriate treatments. A qualitative interview study was conducted with patients with lumbar spinal disorders and neurosurgeons specialising in spine surgery. Both groups of participants were asked to reflect on the decision-mak…
Interprofessional Collaboration
This study explores how interprofessional collaboration is enacted to support activity competence and opportunities for participation of children with physical disabilities. Based on participant observation, the data consist of field notes. Theoretically, the analysis is framed by Anne Edwards’ writings on the relational turn in expertise, especially her concepts of relational expertise, common knowledge, and relational agency. The results illust…
A Sense of Security and Cohesion
Mental health issues are increasing in the young population, which emphasizes the need for health-promoting initiatives. Social support is argued to be important in promoting mental health among young people. The aim of this study was to explore how young people experience social support in their everyday lives, and how such support helps them navigate mental health issues. Twelve in-depth interviews were conducted with participants aged 13 to 16…
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