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Anne Söderlund Schaller is an Associate Professor at Linköping University, specializing in Nursing Sciences. Her research focuses on patients experiencing symptoms related to pain and thirst, primarily within specialized nursing programs that emphasize anesthesia care and surgical nursing. She has conducted clinical patient-centered research, particularly examining the relationship between early pain intensity and mild depressive symptoms in head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy. Her doctoral thesis highlighted how these factors negatively impact patients' quality of life and suggested that patient education and self-care, along with complementary pharmacological treatments, can alleviate pain intensity. Additionally, her ongoing research involves studying biological markers in saliva to reflect pain intensity in head and neck cancer patients during radiation therapy. Schaller collaborates with a multidisciplinary team of professionals—including nurses, physicians, chemists, pharmacists, and dentists—on various projects, one of which focuses on understanding patients' experiences with thirst in palliative care settings, aiming to investigate their quality of life and related interventions.
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