Karin Nordin
Karin Nordin
Professor of Caring Sciences
Karin Nordin is a licencsed psychologist and Professor of Caring Sciences at the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences. Her research at CRB foucuses on genetic counselling and risk information. This research is also conducted in close collaboration with the University of Bergen, Norway.
E-mail: karin.nordin@pubcare.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 62 28
Research profile
PhD and LLD supervision
- Jenny Nordin (Caring Sciences): Coping strategies among young women after sexual harrasements
- Tove Godskesen: Factors associated with participation in phase1 and phase 3 oncology trials
Selected publications
Nordin K, Roshanai A, Bjorvatn C, Wollf K, Mikkelsen EM, Bjelland I, Kvale G, Is genetic counseling a stressful event?, Acta Oncologica, 2011;50(7):1089-1097(9).
Høyer M, Johansson B, Nordin K, Bergkvist L, Ahlgren J et al, Health-related quality of life among women with breast cancer – a population-based study, Acta Oncologica, 2011;50(7):1-12
Hayat Roshanai A, Lampic C, Rosenquist R, Nordin K, Disclosing cancer genetic information within families: perspectives of counselees and their at-risk relatives, Familial Cancer, 2010;9:669-679.
Ferm Widlund K, Gunnarsson C, Nordin K, Hansson MG, Pregnant women are satisfied with the information they receive about prenatal diagnosis, but are they well informed?, Acta Obstetrica et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 2009;88 (10):1128-1132.
Roshanai A, Rosenquist R, Lampic C, Nordin K, Does enhanced information at cancer genetic counseling improve counselees' knowledge, risk perception, satisfaction and negotiation of information to at-risk relatives?: a randomized study, Acta Oncologica, 2009;48:999-1009.
Strømsvik N, Nordin K, Berglund G, Engebretsen LF, Hansson MG, Gjengedal E, Living with MEN 1. Living with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1. Decent Care- Insufficient Medical and Genetic Information. Journal of Genetic Counseling 2007;16:105-117.
Lidén A, Berglund G, Hansson MG, Rosenquist R, Sjödén P-O, Nordin K, Genetic Counselling for Cancer and Risk Perception, Acta Oncologica, 2003;42(7):726-734.
Nordin K, Lidén A, Hansson MG, Rosenquist R, Berglund G, Coping style, psychological distress, risk perception and satisfaction in subjects attending genetic counselling for hereditary cancer, Journal of Medical Genetics, 2002;39:689-694.
Berglund G, Lidén A, Hansson MG, Sjödén P-O, Öberg K, Nordin K, Quality of life in patients with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 (MEN 1), Familial Cancer, 2003;2:27-33.
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