Lena Ring
Lena Ring
Associated Researcher
Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research
Lena Ring is senior researcher in Outcomes research, focusing on Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) studies, e.g., Quality of Life at the Medical Products Agency (MPA). She has worked extensively on incorporation the patient perspectives into outcomes assessments in relation to the evaluation of treatment and care of patients. Specific research areas are Quality of life Assessments in clinical oncology practice and patient-provider communication. She has also published substantially on the topic of patient reported outcomes, such as quality of life assessments both quantitative and qualitative studies. She holds an undergraduate Masters degree in Pharmacy (1993) and a doctoral degree in Pharmaceutical Services Research (1999) from Uppsala University. She did her post-doc as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Psychology at Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (2002-2004). She became Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research in 2007.
E-mail: lena.ring@crb.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 66 70
Mobile: +46 727 14 35 90
Research profile
Teaching
- Specialist nurse programme, KI (Guest lecture)
PhD and post-doc supervision
- Hanna Fagerlind, Department of Pharmacy: Patient-provider Communication in clinical practice
- Mathilde Hedlund-Lindberg, Department of Pharmacy: Quality of life assessments in clinical oncology practice
Selected publications
Articles:
Patrick D, Burke LB, Gwaltney C, Kline Leidy N, Martin ML and Ring L. Establishing and Reporting Evidence of the Content Validity of Newly-Developed Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Instruments for Medical Product Evaluation: Good Research Practices. Part II: Assessing Respondent Understanding. Value in Health (accepted 2011-06-14)
Patrick D, Burke LB, Gwaltney C, Kline Leidy N, Martin ML and Ring L. Establishing and Reporting Evidence of the Content Validity of Newly-Developed Patient-Reported Outcome (PRO) Instruments for Medical Product Evaluation: Good Research Practices. Part I – Eliciting Concepts for a New PRO Instrument. Value in Health (accepted 2011-06-14)
Höfer S, Pfaffenberger N, Renn D, Platter M and Ring L. Coronary intervention improves disease specific HRQL but not individualised QoL: a potential response shift effect?" Applied Research in Quality of Life. 2011, 6 (1), 81-90.
Wettergren L, Kettis Lindblad Å, Glimelius B and Ring L. Comparing two versions of the Schedule for Evaluation of Individual Quality of life in patients with advanced cancer. Acta Oncologica (2011). Jun;50(5):648-52. Epub 2011 Feb 16.
Fagerlind H, Bergström I, Kettis Lindblad A, Velikova G, Glimelius B and Ring L. Communication analysis in oncology care. Performance of a combination of a content analysis system and a global scale. Psychooncology. 2010 Jul 28. [Epub ahead of print]
Moen, J., Norrgård, S., Antonov, K., Nilsson, J.L.G., & Ring, L. GPs’ perceptions of multiple-medicine use in elderly patients. J Eval Clin Pract. 2010 Feb;16(1):69-75.
Moen, J., Antonov, K., Nilsson, J.L.G., and Ring, L. " Interaction Between Participants in Focus Groups With Older Patients and With General Practitioners". Qual Health Res. 2010 May;20(5):607-16. Epub 2009 Nov 19.
Moen J, Antonov K, Larsson CA, Lindblad U, Nilsson JLG, Råstam L, and Ring L. Factors Associated With Multiple Medication Use in Different Age Groups. Ann Pharmacother. 2009 Dec;43(12):1978-85. Epub 2009 Nov 17.
Fagerlind H, Ring L, Brülde B, Feltelius N, Kettis Lindblad Å. Patients' understanding of the concepts of health and quality of life. Patient Education and Counseling. Patient Educ Couns. 2010 Jan;78(1):104-10. Epub 2009 Jun 27.
Fagerlind H, Kettis Lindblad Å, Bergström, I, Nilsson M, Nauclér G, Glimelius B, Ring L. Patient-physician communication during oncology consultations. Psychooncology. 2008 Oct;17(10):975-85.
Moen, J., Bohm, A., Tillenius, T., Antonov, K., Nilsson, J.L.G., and Ring, L. "I don't know how many of these [medicines] are necessary.."-A focus group study among elderly users of multiple medicines. Patient Education and Counseling. Patient Educ Couns. 2009 Feb;74(2):135-41. Epub 2008 Oct 8.
Kettis-Lindblad A, Ring L, Viberth E, Hansson MG, Perceptions of potential donors in the Swedish public towards information and consent procedures in relation to use of human tissue samples in biobanks: A population-based study, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2007;35(2):148-156.
Ring L, Höfer S, McGee H, Hickey A, and O’Boyle C. Individualised quality of life: can it be accounted for by psychological or subjective well-being? Soc Ind Res 2007; 82 (3): 443-461.
Kettis Lindblad Å, Ring L, Widmark E and Glimelius B. Patients’ and doctors’ views of the Schedule for Individualised Quality of Life (SEIQoL-DW) in clinical practice. J Support Oncol 2007;5:281–287
Ring L, Kettis Lindblad A, Kjellgren K I, Kindell Y, Maroti M and Serup J. Living with skin diseases and topical treatment: patients’ and providers’ perspectives and priorities. J Dermatolog Treat 2007;18: 209–218.
Krigsman K, Moen J, Nilsson L.G. and Ring L "Refill adherence by the elderly for asthma/COPD drugs dispensed over a ten-year period" J Clin Pharm Ther. 2007 Dec;32(6):603-11.
Kettis Lindblad Å, Ring L, Viberth E, Hansson MG, Genetic research and donation of tissue samples to biobanks. What do potential sample donors in the Swedish general public think?, European Journal of Public Health, 2006;16:433-440.
Ring, L, Kettis Lindblad, Å, Bendtsen, P, Viklund, E, Jansson, R and Glimelius, B. Feasibility and validity of a computer administered version of SEIQoL-DW. Qual Life Res, 2006, 15 (7), 1173-1177
Ring L, Höfer S, Heuston F, Harris D and O’Boyle C. Response shift masks the treatment impact on patient reported outcomes (PROs): the example of individual quality of life in edentulous patients. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2005 Sep 7;3:55
Moore M, Hofer S, McGee H, Ring L. Can the concepts of depression and quality of life be integrated using a time perspective? Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2005 Jan 5;3:1.
Reviews, book chapters and reports
McGee, H and Ring, L. Quality of life in Blackwell Health Psychology 2nd edition (eds French, Vedhara, Kaptein, Weinman) for Wiley Blackwell. (2010)
Ring L, Gross C and McCall E. Putting the text back into context: toward increased use of mixed methods for quality of life research. Qual Life Res. 2010 Jun;19(5):613-5. Epub 2010 Apr 27.
Wettergren L, Kettis Lindblad, Å, Sprangers, M and Ring L. The use, feasibility and psychometric properties of an individualized quality-of-life instrument: a systematic review of the SEIQoL-DW. Qual Life Res. 2009 Aug;18(6):737-46. Epub 2009 Jun 3.
Ahmed S and Ring L. Influence of response shift on evaluations of change in patient-reported outcomes. Expert Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res. 2008 Oct;8(5):479-89.
Ring, L. Quality of life. 2007. In S. Ayers, A. Baum, C. McManus, S. Newman, K. Wallston, J. Weinman & R. West (Eds) Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine (2nd Edition). Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
Serup J, Kettis Lindblad Å, Kjellgren K, Maroti M, Ring L, Ulff E (alfabethic order). Manage your skin problems. The European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Master Class in Dermatology B2. DVD and booklet for patient education. 2006
Serup J, Kettis Lindblad Å, Kjellgren K, Maroti M, Ring L, Ulff E (alfabethic order). Improving dermatological treatment. The European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Master Class in Dermatology B1. DVD and booklet for continuing education of dermatologists.2006
Cousins G, McGee HM, Ring L, Conroy R, Kay E, Croke D & Tomkin D. (2005). Public Perceptions of Biomedical Research: A survey of the general public in Ireland. Dublin: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland & Health Research Board.
O'Boyle C, Höfer S, Ring L. Individualized Quality of Life. In: Fayers P, Hays RD, editors. Assessing the quality of life in clinical trials. 2e ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2005. p. 225-242.
Kettis Lindblad Å, Lundberg L, Glimelius B and Hansson Mats G. Quality of life assessments in oncology: validity, interpretation and implementation in clinical practice [review]. Acta Oncol 2002; 41 (6): 507-516
Ring, L. Kettis Lindblad, Å., Public and patients attitudes to biobanks and informed consent. In Hansson, M.G. (ed.), The Use of Human Biobanks. Ethical, Social, Economical and Legal Aspects. Report I, Uppsala University, 2003.
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