Researcher profile
FIONA AANESEN
Current appointment
PhD student
Area of interest
Vocational rehabilitation | Health promotion | Musculoskeletal health | Work disability
RESEARCHER BIO
Fiona is a PhD student at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Oslo Metropolitan University. She is a physiotherapist with long experience from working in primary care and has a Master’s degree in Health Promotion from the University of South-Eastern Norway. She has worked as a researcher in the Musk health research group since 2018.
Fiona’s PhD research is on vocational interventions for people on sick leave with musculoskeletal disorders. Currently she is conducting a process evaluation of a stratified vocational advice intervention delivered in a randomised controlled trial (the MI-NAV study). She is also investigating the effect of motivational interviewing and a stratified vocational advice intervention on return to work for people on sick leave with musculoskeletal disorders participating in the MI-NAV study. She has previously published a mapping review on the use of motivational interviewing to facilitate return to work for people on sick leave with musculoskeletal disorders.
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Follow Fiona's research work on Researchgate.
CURRENT PROJECTS
MI-NAV PROJECT
Work disability and musculoskeletal pain
Can Motivational Interviewing facilitate Return-to-Work in sick-listed people with musculoskeletal disorders? Read more about the project here.