Jan-Vegard Nilsen
- Psychologist/Doctoral Research Fellow
- +47 23 02 73 94
Jan-Vegard Nilsen joined the research team in august 2017 as a PhD-candidate. Educated as a clinical psychologist, he previously has worked for over a decade with adolescent ED, both within an outpatient setting and at higher levels of care.
Ongoing Research
Family-based inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa: User-perspective experiences. With his PhD he aims to understand better how the inpatient context can be enabled in more promising ways for adolescents and families in need of higher levels of care. An important vantage point is a) the emerging evidence base that supports offering outpatient family-based therapy for adolescent ED, and b) the called for need to provide better ways to adapt and incorporate family-based approaches at higher levels of care. By applying qualitative methodology he investigates users’ experiences with having received longer term family admissions, at a specialized ED-unit. By investigating the former patients’ and family members’ experiences, and discuss implications and dilemmas, he seek to provide knowledge that can be of value for advancing treatment development - and generally; add to the ongoing debate on howto provide inpatient treatment in more competent ways. Together with utilizing user perspectives, he’s interviewing experienced clinicians to shed further light on how the many dilemmas embedded in inpatient care can be solved in better ways.
Publications 2023
Multifamily therapy for adolescent eating disorders: a study of the change in eating disorder symptoms from start of treatment to follow-up
J Eat Disord, 11 (1), 92
DOI 10.1186/s40337-023-00814-y, PubMed 37287009
"I am not alone". A qualitative feasibility study of eating disorders prevention groups for young females with type 1 diabetes
J Eat Disord, 11 (1), 42
DOI 10.1186/s40337-023-00767-2, PubMed 36941696
Publications 2022
Unge med anoreksi og deres søsken: Hvordan sykdommen påvirket dagliglivet i akuttfasen og ved oppfølging etter cirka 4,5 år
Tidsskrift for Norsk psykologforening, 59, 366-373
DOI 10.52734/Tt7787P5, PublikaID 415
Publications 2021
Family members' reflections upon a family-based inpatient treatment program for adolescent anorexia nervosa: a thematic analysis
J Eat Disord, 9 (1), 7
DOI 10.1186/s40337-020-00360-x, PubMed 33407914
Publications 2020
External support and personal agency - young persons' reports on recovery after family-based inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa: a qualitative descriptive study
J Eat Disord, 8, 18
DOI 10.1186/s40337-020-00293-5, PubMed 32391150
Publications 2019
Minding the adolescent in family-based inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa: a qualitative study of former inpatients' views on treatment collaboration and staff behaviors
BMC Psychol., 7 (1), 72
DOI 10.1186/s40359-019-0348-2
Family-based inpatient treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa: a thematic analysis of former patients' post-treatment reflections
Eat Disord, 29 (4), 390-407
DOI 10.1080/10640266.2019.1656469, PubMed 31682534
Minding the adolescent in family-based inpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa: a qualitative study of former inpatients' views on treatment collaboration and staff behaviors
BMC Psychol, 7 (1), 72
DOI 10.1186/s40359-019-0348-2, PubMed 31727151
Publications 2017
Naturalistic Outcome of Family-Based Inpatient Treatment for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa
Eur Eat Disord Rev, 26 (2), 141-145
DOI 10.1002/erv.2572, PubMed 29218761