DBI World Conference 2019 Communications stream: Concurrent session 8E Presenter: Dr Moa Wahlqvist Topic: The Swedish National Resource Center for Deafblindness research overview

1. The Swedish National
Resource center for
Deafblindness research
overview
Moa Wahlqvist
PhD Disability science
Coordinator, Researcher, Social worker
The Swedish National Resource center for deafblindness, Audiological
Research center, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Örebro University
hospital, Swedish Institute for disability research, Örebro University,
Sweden.

2. The Swedish National Resource center for deafblindness
Expert support
Gathering,
developing,
and
spreading
information
Research &
Development
(RoD)
Methods
User co-operation
Courses,
conferences
and
seminars

3. Research Overview
2013, initiative in collaboration between The Swedish National
Resource center for deafblindness and The Audiological
Research center.
Overview of scientific articles within the field of deafblindness.
Provides, author/s, title, scientific journal, and abstract for the
included articles.

4. Process
Systematic searches in nine scientific databases, Pub Med,
CINAHL, PsychInfo…
Searches in databases are conducted using combinations of
keywords within, hearing, vision, specific diagnosis…
Inclusion criteria's are peer-reviewed scientific articles within
the field of deafblindness regardless of discipline.
Articles are reviewed with consideration to title and abstract.

5. Categories
Articles that meet the inclusion criteria's are further categorized
in 17 different categories, such as, communication, diagnosis
and rehabilitation.
Overlap between categories
Diagnosis and demographics (1786 articles)
Recreation and leisure (39)

6. The 2019 update
The latest update lead to the inclusion of approximately 200
articles, and up to date the research overview includes 3900
scientific articles.
If the article is available in open access it can be read in full
text, if not it can be retrieved by the help from a library.
Visit: http://research.nkcdb.se/

7. What can the reserach overview be used
for and how?

8. Questions?
Thanks for the attention!
moa.wahlqvist@nkcdb.se