Mats Eriksson
Mats Eriksson Position: Professor School/office: School of Health SciencesEmail: bWF0cy5oLmVyaWtzc29uO29ydS5zZQ==
Phone: +46 19 303362
Room: P2444
About Mats Eriksson
Mats Eriksson is a Professor in Nursing Science and a Specialist Nurse in intensive care. His research area concerns children and adolescents. He is the leader of the research group PEARL - Pain in Early Life, both at Örebro University and the international PEARL-group. Mats is a member of the steering committee of the SANNI-project, working for safe analgesia in neonatal intensive care.
Mats Eriksson is main supervisor for four PhD-students and has several assignments as faculty opponent. He is associate editor for Pediatric and Neonatal Pain. He is also a scientific advisor at National Board of Health and Welfare and board member at the Foundation Governing Board at Jönköping University.
Mats Eriksson works as specialisation coordinator for postgraduate studies in health care sciences at School of Health Sciences, Örebro University.
Mats Eriksson is a member of International Association for the Study of Pain - Special Interest Group on Pain in Childhood, European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care and many other scientific and professional organisations, and member of Scientific Advisory Board in European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants - EFCNI. He is also a fellow of European Academy of Nursing Science.
Research projects
Active projects
- CloROP - Clonidine as pain relief during eye examinations in preterm infants
- Comparative efficacy of pain relieving interventions to reduce procedural pain in neonates: A systematic review and network meta-analysis
- Parenthood after neonatal care - PANC
- Just-In-TIME - Intervention with combined dance and yoga for girls with functional abdominal pain disorders
- Living with narcolepsy as a result of vaccination against the swine-flu - quality-of-life and the need of support among children and adolescents and their families
- Narcolepsy after vaccination against the swine-flu - trust in health care and the role of social media
- NEOPAM - Developing an Educational Program of Neonatal Pain Management to Improve Knowledge and Attitudes among NICU Nurses
- POP - Parent led pain management
- PRICOV-19 - Quality of care and patient safety in primary care practices in times of a pandemic
- SANNI - Safe analgesia for neonatal intensive care
- Effects of multi-modal non-pharmacological treatment in adult patients with ADHD - A randomised controlled study
- SWEpap - Parents, a pain-relieving resource in neonatal care
- The TAPE study. Pain associated with the use of medical adhesives
- Trust and compliance in the Swedish child vaccination programme with focus on HPV-vaccination
- A hyperscanning study of synchronous brain activity in newborn infants and their mothers during parent-led pain alleviation with skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding and lullaby singing
- Translation and cultural adaption of the Quality Of Life In Chronic Child's Disease Questionnaire (QLCCDQ)for a Swedish context
Completed projects
- Effects of early support to parents whose infants need neonatal care
- Evidence based nursing ? how do we get there?
- Physical contact in professional education and training
- Terms and conditions for adults with Spina Bifida in everyday life
- The role of parents in neonatal pain management - a global survey
- Parental experiences of Skin-to-Skin Contact: a meta-study
- Skin-to-skin care as pain relief for newborn infants - measured with NIRS - Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- Home-phototherapy for newborn infants with hyperbilirubinemia
- Interactive infant-directed singing as supportive music therapy for premature and term newborns during painful procedures
- Natural course, quality of life, heredity and mortality among children and adolescents who debuted with seizures 50 years ago, in Uppsala county
- NeoOpioid - No pain during infancy by adapting off-patent medicines
- The role of nurses in parental participation in the pain care of infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit