Åsa Grauman
Åsa Grauman
PhD, Researcher
Åsa Grauman is particularly interested in how people perceive their risk of health threats. She is currently investigating how people perceive their risk of developing breast- and colorectal cancers, and how risk information may harm individuals.
She also studies cancer patients' (acute myological leukemia and colorectal cancer) preferences and perspectives on individualized treatment using algorithms sequences techniques. The research is part of the multidisciplinary projects MEET-AML and ONCOLOGICS. Within the IMI-research project Screen4care, she studies parents' preferences regarding newborn screening for rare diseases.
Åsa Grauman has a master's degree in public health science and has a doctorate in medical science from Uppsala University. Her PhD project was about how people perceive their risk of suffering from heart disease, how people are affected by cardiovascular risk information and their preferences of how risk information should be conveyed.
E-mail: asa.grauman@crb.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 62 44
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Vetenskapsradion 2017-03-02
Risk information
We are investigating risk information from serval perspectives.
Managing genetic risk information
Research generates huge amounts of genetic information. How should we handle it? That is what we are trying to find out in a large international research project.
Preferences
Cardiovascular risk information
Åsa Grauman will investigate how research participants perceive their personal risk for cardiovascular disease, and their perceptions on cardiovascular risk information.
Recent publications
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Personalizing precision medicine: Patients with AML perceptions about treatment decisions
Part of Patient Education and Counseling, 2023.
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Attitudes and values among the Swedish general public to using human embryonic stem cells for medical treatment
Part of BMC Medical Ethics, 2022.
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Health literacy and digital health information-seeking behavior - a cross-sectional study among highly educated Swedes
Part of BMC Public Health, 2022.
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Perceptions on using surplus embryos for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease among the Swedish population: a qualitative study
Part of BMC Medical Ethics, 2022.
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Public perceptions of myocardial infarction: Do illness perceptions predict preferences for health check results
Part of Preventive Medicine Reports, p. 101683-101683, 2022.
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What CVD risk factors predict self-perceived risk of having a myocardial infarction?: A cross-sectional study
Part of International Journal of Cardiology Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention, 2022.
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Grauman, Åsa
The publics’ perspective on cardiovascular risk information: Implications for practice
2021.
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Communicating test results from a general health checkup: the public’s preferences from a discrete choice experiment survey
Part of Patient Related Outcome Measures, p. 649-660, 2021.
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Good general health and lack of family history influence the underestimation of cardiovascular risk: A cross sectional study
Part of European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, p. 676-683, 2021.
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Short-term mental distress in research participants after receiving cardiovascular risk information
Part of PLOS ONE, 2019.
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Exploring research participants' perceptions of cardiovascular risk information-Room for improvement and empowerment
Part of Patient Education and Counseling, p. 1528-1534, 2019.
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Informing about cardiovascular risk
Any health care interventions should be made after careful consideration of the benefits and risks for the individual. But experts and the general public sometimes have different views on what the benefit actually is. Understanding how the public perceives risk is important for designing the information correctly: to build on the individual's pre-understanding, to bridge knowledge gaps, and to correct inaccuracies. From a societal perspective, it is also important to ensure that health care efforts are equal. By examining which groups benefit from the efforts, they can be directed towards particularly vulnerable groups and individuals.
This policy brief contains Åsa Grauman's recommendations for how best to inform the public about the risk of cardiovascular disease.
