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Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen

  • Cecilia Sjöholm, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Paul A Gardiner, Ing Mari Dohrn :
    Finding the way - nursing staff's perceptions and experiences of outdoor walks with residents in dementia care homes: a qualitative study
    BMC Nursing 17. June 2025
  • Nina Enersen, Daniel Løke, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Randi Sviland :
    Navigating Life After Multiple Amputations: A Qualitative Exploration of Rehabilitation and Everyday Challenges in Norway
    Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences 07. August 2025 DOI
  • Anstein Olimb Hillkirk, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Hege Mari Johnsen :
    Physiotherapists’ User Acceptance of a Lower Limb Robotic Exoskeleton in Specialized Rehabilitation: Qualitative Exploratory Study
    JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies 16. April 2025 DOI
  • Wiebke Höfers, Kirsti Riiser, Vivien Jørgensen, Solveig Lægreid Hauger, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Resilience and adaptations—insights from Norwegian adolescents with pediatric-onset spinal cord injury
    Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences 03. April 2025 DOI / ARKIV
  • Anstein Olimb Hillkirk, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Hege Mari Johnsen :
    Physiotherapists' User Acceptance of a Lower Limb Robotic Exoskeleton in Specialized Rehabilitation: Qualitative Exploratory Study
    JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies 2025 DOI
  • Pernilla Sönnerfors, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Sara Lundell, Annika Toots, Karin Wadell, Alexandra Halvarsson :
    Preferences for an eHealth tool to support physical activity and exercise training in COPD: a qualitative study from the viewpoint of prospective users
    BMC Pulmonary Medicine 13. February 2023 DOI / ARKIV
  • Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Charlotte Walter, Johan Gäverth, Ing-Mari Dohrn :
    Between commitment and avoidance – working age stroke survivors’ perceptions of physical activity and sedentary behaviour: a qualitative study
    BMC Neurology 2022 DOI
  • Beate Storløs, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Helene L. Søberg, Ingerid Kleffelgård :
    Patient-specific functioning related to dizziness and balance problems after traumatic brain injury – A cross sectional study using an ICF perspective
    Cogent Medicine 2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Vivien Jørgensen, Wiebke Höfers, susanne Sällström, Johan K Stanghelle :
    Pediatric spinal cord injury rehabilitation: A protocol for an international multicenter project (SINpedSCI)
    Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine 2021 DOI
  • Carolina Halén, Susanne Gripenberg, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Ing-Mari Dohrn, Alexandra Halvarsson :
    “A manageable and challenging fall prevention intervention with impact on society” - older women’s perspectives on participation in the stayBalanced training programme
    Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 2021 DOI
  • Wiebke Höfers, Vivien Jørgensen, susanne Sällström, Kristine Marie Mamen Vege, Mona Strøm, Peter W. New et al.:
    Organisation of services and systems of care in paediatric spinal cord injury rehabilitation in seven countries: a survey with a descriptive cross-sectional design
    Spinal Cord 2021 DOI
  • Alexandra Halvarsson, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Per Nilsen, Ing-Mari Dohrn, Agneta Ståhle :
    StayBalanced: implementation of evidence-based fall prevention balance training for older adults—cluster randomized controlled and hybrid type 3 trial
    Trials 2021 DOI
  • Pernilla Sönnerfors, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Agneta Ståhle, Karin Wadell, Alexandra Halvarsson :
    Access to, use, knowledge, and preferences for information technology and technical equipment among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Sweden. A cross-sectional survey study
    BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2021 DOI / ARKIV
  • K. Hamed, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, A. Halvarsson :
    "Fear of falling serves as protection and signifies potential danger”: a qualitative study to conceptualise the phrase “fear of falling” in women with osteoporosis
    Osteoporosis International 2021 DOI
  • Malin Sellberg, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Malin Nygren-Bonnier, Alexandra Halvarsson :
    Clinical supervisors’ experience of giving feedback to students during clinical integrated learning
    Physiotherapy Theory and Practice 2020 DOI
  • Hilde Worum, Daniela Lillekroken, Birgitte Ahlsen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Astrid Bergland :
    Otago exercise programme—from evidence to practice: a qualitative study of physiotherapists’ perceptions of the importance of organisational factors of leadership, context and culture for knowledge translation in Norway
    BMC Health Services Research 2020 DOI
  • Hilde Worum, Daniela Lillekroken, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Birgitte Ahlsen, Astrid Bergland :
    Physiotherapists’ perceptions of challenges facing evidence-based practice and the importance of environmental empowerment in fall prevention in the municipality – a qualitative study
    BMC Geriatrics 29. October 2020 DOI
  • Hilde Worum, Daniela Lillekroken, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Birgitte Ahlsen, Astrid Bergland :
    Reflections of older people about their experience of fall prevention exercise in the community- a qualitative study exploring evidence-based practice
    BMC Public Health 2020 DOI
  • Hanna Johansson, Erika Franzén, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Maria Hagstromer, Breiffni Leavy :
    Controlling the Uncontrollable: Perceptions of Balance in People With Parkinson Disease
    Physical Therapy 2019 DOI
  • Vivien Jørgensen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Hanne Bjørg Slettahjell, Emil Kostovski :
    Carboxy terminal collagen crosslinks as a prognostic risk factor for fall-related fractures in individuals with established spinal cord injury
    Spinal Cord 2019 DOI
  • Anna Palmgren, Agneta Ståhle, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Ing-Mari Dohrn, Alexandra Halvarsson :
    "Stay balanced" - effectiveness of evidence-based balance training for older adults transferred into a physical therapy primary care setting - a pilot study
    Disability and Rehabilitation 2019 DOI
  • Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Alexandra Halvarsson :
    Reliability of the Swedish version of the Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale assessing physiotherapist?s attitudes to implementation of evidence-based practice
    PLOS ONE 2019 DOI
  • Breiffni Leavy, Johan Berntsson, Erika Franzen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Perceptions of balance and falls following a supervised training intervention – a qualitative study of people with Parkinson’s disease
    Disability and Rehabilitation 2019 DOI
  • Hilde Worum, Daniela Lillekroken, Birgitte Ahlsen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Astrid Bergland :
    Bridging the gap between research-based knowledge and clinical practice: a qualitative examination of patients and physiotherapists’ views on the Otago exercise Programme
    BMC Geriatrics 2019 DOI
  • David Liljequist, Britt Elfving, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Intraclass correlation - A discussion and demonstration of basic features
    PLOS ONE 2019 DOI
  • Emelie Butler Forslund, Vivien Jørgensen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Claes Hultling, Kerstin Wahman, Erika Franzèn :
    Predictors of falls in persons with spinal cord injury—a prospective study using the Downton fall risk index and a single question of previous falls
    Spinal Cord 2018 DOI
  • Breiffni Leavy, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Kamilla Nylund, Maria Hagströmer, Erika Franzén :
    "Pushing the limits": Rethinking motor and cognitive resources after a highly challenging balance training program for Parkinson disease
    Physical Therapy 2017 DOI
  • Vivien Jørgensen, Emelie Butler Forslund, Arve Isak Opheim, Erika Franzen, Kerstin Wahman, Claes Hultling et al.:
    Falls and fear of falling predict future falls and related injuries in ambulatory individuals with spinal cord injury: a longitudinal observational study.
    Journal of Physiotherapy 2017 DOI
  • Vivien Jørgensen, Arve Isak Opheim, Alexandra Halvardsson, Erika Franzèn, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Comparison of the berg balance scale and the mini-BESTest for assessing balance in ambulatory people with spinal cord injury: Validation study
    Physical Therapy 2017 DOI
  • Vivien Jørgensen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Negotiating identity and self-image: Perceptions of falls in ambulatory individuals with spinal cord injury - a qualitative study
    Clinical Rehabilitation 2017 DOI
  • Emelie Butler Forslund, Vivien Jørgensen, Erika Franzèn, Arve Isak Opheim, Åke Seiger, Agneta Ståhle et al.:
    High incidence of falls and fall-related injuries in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury: A prospective study of risk indicators
    Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine 2017 DOI
  • E Butler Forslund, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Claes Hultling, Kerstin Wahman, Erika Franzen :
    Concerns about falling in wheelchair users with spinal cord injury-validation of the Swedish version of the spinal cord injury falls concern scale
    Spinal Cord 2016 DOI
  • Ing-Mari Dohrn, Agneta Ståhle, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    You have to keep moving, be active: Perceptions and experiences of habitual physical activity in older women with osteoporosis
    Physical Therapy 2016 DOI
  • Alexandra Halvarsson, Agneta Ståhle, Carolina Halen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    "Better safe than sorry": A qualitative content analysis of participant's perspectives of fall-related concerns and balance in older women with osteoporosis after balance training
    Disability and Rehabilitation 2016 DOI
  • Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Åsa Blad Måøy, Vivien Jørgensen, Johan K Stanghelle :
    Test-retest reliability at the item level and total score level of the Norwegian version of the Spinal Cord Injury Falls Concern Scale (SCI-FCS)
    Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine (JSCM) 2016 DOI
  • Vivien Jørgensen, Emelie Butler Forslund, Erika Franzèn, Arve Isak Opheim, Åke Seiger, Agneta Ståhle et al.:
    Factors Associated With Recurrent Falls in Individuals With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Multicenter Study.
    Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2016 DOI
  • Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Task-specific balance training improves self-assesed function in Community dwelling older adults with balance deficits and fear of falling: a randomized controlled trial
    Clinical Rehabilitation 2014 DOI
  • Wiebke Höfers, Vivien Jørgensen, Kirsti Riiser, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Global voices: Adolescents’ perceptions of pediatric SCI rehabilitation
    09. October 2025
  • Wiebke Höfers, Vivien Jørgensen, Kristine Marie Mamen Vege, Mona Strøm, Johan Kvalvik Stanghelle, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Global Insights: Pediatric Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation Across Seven Countris
    09. October 2025
  • Runa Kalleson, Kirsti Riiser, Vivien Jørgensen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    I'm still me. Paradoxes, ambiguities and ambivalences –the lived experience of adolescents with pediatric-onset spinal cord injury
    09. October 2025
  • Vegard Strøm, Vivien Jørgensen, Annette Halvorsen, Annelie Ingegerd Caroline Sche Leiulfsrud, Tiina Rekand, Ingrid R Njerve et al.:
    Perceived Full Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury - Insights from a Norwegian Cohort (InSCI-Nor)
    2025
  • Wiebke Höfers, Kirsti Riiser, Vivien Jørgensen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Returning to daily life after a pediatric spinal cord injury - 8 norwegian adolescents talk about their adaption to life after the injury
    2024
  • Wiebke Höfers, Vivien Jørgensen, Kirsti Riiser, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Ungdommers mestring av livet etter en ryggmargsskade: Innsikt fra en kvalitativ intervjustudie
    14. March 2024
  • Wiebke Höfers, Kirsti Riiser, Vivien Jørgensen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Adaption to daily life after specialized rehabilitation - perspectives from eight Norwegian adolescents with paediatric onset spinal cord injury
    2023
  • Hilde Worum, Daniela Lillekroken, Birgitte Ahlsen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Astrid Bergland :
    Barriers and facilitators for the implementation and knowledge translation of evidence-based practice in community fall prevention: A qualitative study of the users’ views and reflections
    OsloMet - storbyuniversitetet 2022
  • Emil Kostovski, Hanne Bjørg Slettahjell, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Carboxy Terminal Collagen Crosslinks as a prognostic risk factor for fall-related fractures in individuals with established spinal cord injury. A prospective cohort study.
    2019
  • Kerstin Wahman, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Emilie B Forslund :
    FALLS IN WHEELCHAIR USERS WITH SPINAL CORD INJURY - INCIDENCE, RISKS AND CONCERNS
    Karolinska Institutet Sweden 2017
  • Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen, Ellen Wakefield, Vivien Jørgensen, Arve Isak Opheim :
    Pragmatic evaluation of aspects concerning validity and feasibility of the Mini Balance Evaluation System Test in a Specialized Rehabilitation setting.
    2015
  • Vivien Jørgensen, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Falls challenge identity and self image. A qualitative study in ambulatory individuals With spinal cord injury
    2015
  • Vivien Jørgensen, Emilie B Forslund, Erika Franzen, Arve Isak Opheim, Kerstin Wahman, Kirsti Skavberg Roaldsen :
    Fear of falling in persons with spinal cord injury.
    2014

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