Publications spring 2025

Articles in international scientific journals

Alaie, I., Svedberg, P., Ropponen, A., & Narusyte, J. (2025). Trajectories of sickness absence and disability pension in young working-age adults in Sweden. Sci Rep. 15(1):18592. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-03739-5. PMID: 40425723.

Atarodi, V., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Morillo-Cuadrado, D., Mediavilla, R., Felez-Nobrega, M., Monistrol-Mula, A., Smith, P., Lorant, V., Petri-Romão, P., Sijbrandij, M., Witteveen, A. B., Pinucci, I., Compagnoni, M. M., Conflitti, C., Caggiu, G., Melchior, M., Vuillermoz, C., Bergström, J., & Gémes, K. (2025). Specialized mental healthcare use for common mental disorders and prescription of antidepressants before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among working-age refugees and Swedish-born individuals - a nationwide register-based study. BMC Public Health, 25(1):840. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-22028-4 

Chungkham, H. S., Högnäs, R., Alexanderson, K., Zaninotto, P., Farrants, K., Hyde, M., Magnusson Hanson, L. L., Head, J., Rugulies, R., Dyreborg Larsen, A., Vanajan, A., Stenholm, S., & Westerlund, H. (2025). Association between job strain and working life expectancy: a longitudinal study of older people in Sweden. European Journal of Public Health, 35(1):85–90. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckae186 

Ellilä, V., Taipale, H., Tiihonen, J., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., & Niemelä, S. (2025). Relapse in substance-induced psychosis and associated risk factors. A Nationwide register-linkage study from Sweden. Addiction. Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1111/add.70014

Farrants, K., Cybulski, L., & Alexanderson, K. (2025). Sickness absence among blue-collar workers in the retail and wholesale industry during the Covid-19 pandemic; a longitudinal cohort study. Scientific Reports, 15:13627. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-97025-z

Farrants, K., Müller, M., & Alexanderson K. (2025). Sickness absence among privately employed white-collar workers during the COVID-19 pandemic; a prospective cohort study. BMC Public Health, 25(1):548. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-21566-1 

Gémes, K., Pettersson, E., Sjölund Andoff, S., Farrants, K., Friberg, E., & Alexanderson, K. (2024). Sickness absence and disability pension trajectories among individuals on sickness absence due to stress-related disorders. Two prospective population-based cohorts with 13-month follow-up. PLOS ONE, 19(12):e0315706. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0315706

Helgesson, M., Gustafsson, K., & Leineweber, C. Suffering of Common Mental Disorders but Still at Work: A Longitudinal Study During Periods of Differences in Regulations for Having Sick Leave. (2025). Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation. doi: 10.1007/s10926-025-10269-4

Kautzky, A., Pettersson, E., Amin, R., Akhtar, A., Tanskanen, A., Taipale, H., Wancata, J., Gemes, K., & Mittendorfer-Rutz, E. (2025). Treatment Patterns for Incident Bipolar Disorder Among Nonrefugee Immigrants, Refugees, Second-Generation Immigrants, and Host Population in Sweden. Bipolar Disord. Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1111/bdi.70007

Klein, Y., Nilsen, I. B. R., Lindfors, P., Magnusson Hanson, L. L. & Stenfors, C. U. D. (2025). Nature visits buffered against loneliness during COVID-19, especially among those mainly working remotely: a population-based study of working adults in Sweden. Journal of Public Health (Berl.). doi: 10.1007/s10389-025-02465-6 

Lieslehto, J., Tiihonen, J., Lähteenvuo, M., Kautzky, A., Akhtar, A., Ármannsdóttir, B., Leucht, S., Correll, C. U., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Tanskanen, A., & Taipale, H. (2025). Machine learning-based mortality risk assessment in first-episode bipolar disorder: a transdiagnostic external validation study. EClinicalMedicine, 81:103108. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103108  

Machado, A., Pettersson, E., Alexanderson, K., Hillert, J., & Friberg, E. (2024). Sick leave in the prodromal phase of multiple sclerosis and its association with diagnostic delay: A short report. Multiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical, 10(4). doi: 10.1177/20552173241305982 

Mellin, D., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Montgomery, C. J., Cullen, A. E., & Taipale, H. (2025). Initiation of antipsychotic medication among refugees, non-refugee migrants, second-generation migrants, and Swedish-born adults with incident non-affective psychotic disorders. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s00127-025-02887-3 

Mensah, A., Nyberg, A., Wennberg, P., & Toivanen, S. (2025). Effort-reward imbalance and problem drinking among workers: Differences in gender and the gender composition of industries and main job activities in a prospective cohort study from Sweden. Epub 2025 Mar 7. Soc Sci Med, 372:117911. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117911     

Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Bergström, J., Josefsson, P., Taipale, H., Sijbrandij, M., Witteveen, A., Monzio Compagnoni, M., Lora, A., Felez-Nobrega, M., Haro, J. M., Melchior, M., van der Waerden, J., Gémes, K., & Amin, R. (2024.). Suicidal behavior in patients with severe mental disorders prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Psychol Med. 54(16), 4759–4767. doi: 10.1017/S003329172400299X  

de Montgomery, C. J., Rasmussen, A. F., Bergström, J., Taipale, H., Akhtar, A., Krasnik, A., Nørredam, M., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., & Cullen, A. E. (2025). Refugee Migration Background and Healthcare Contacts Prior to First-Episode Psychosis in Young Adults in Denmark and Sweden: Are Patterns Consistent Across Countries? Early Interv Psychiatry, 19(4):e70039. doi: 10.1111/eip.70039  

Naurin, E., Markstedt, E., Schneider, M. C., Lizotte M-K, & Stolle, D. (2025). The effects of parental leave on attitudes toward the state. Politics & Gender, 21(4), 824–846. doi: 10.1017/S1743923X25000054

Nilsen, C., Finkel, D., Sindi, S., & Kåreholt, I. (2025). Different stressors across the life course have different paths to impact cognitive and physical aging. Advances in Life Course Research, 63, 100661. doi: 10.1016/j.alcr.2025.100661

Oldenburg, C., Kjeldgård, L., Stigson, H. & Friberg, E. (2025). Sickness absence > 14 days following mild traumatic brain injuries from traffic accidents: a Swedish nationwide register study. BMC Public Health, 25(1):1518. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-22704-5 

Prakash, K. C., Madsen, I. E. H., Rugulies, R., Xu, T., Kivimaki, M., Magnusson Hanson, L. L. (2025). Reply to Letter to the Editor regarding the article 'Exposure to workplace sexual harassment and risk of cardiometabolic disease: a prospective cohort study of 88 904 Swedish men and women'. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 32(4):353-354. doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwae300

Roland, M., Rudberg, A. S., Arnberg, F., Alexanderson, K., & Sjöstrand, C. (2025). Sickness absence and disability pension in patients treated with mechanical thrombectomy. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases, 34(3):108236. Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2025.108236  

Ropponen, A., Bergström, J., Narusyte, J., & Svedberg, P. (2025). A life course study of genetic and environmental influences on sustainable working life. PLoS ONE, 20(2): e0317675. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0317675

Ropponen, A., Wang, M., Narusyte, J., & Svedberg, P. (2025). Concurrent trajectories of occupational groups and sustainable working life-a Swedish twin cohort study over 16 years. Ind Health. doi: 10.2486/indhealth.2024-0205

Rödenhake, E., Fritzell, J., Rostgaard, T., & Agahi, N. (2025). Varför återhämtar sig vissa äldre personer bättre än andra efter förluster? Äldre I Centrum Vetenskapligt Supplement, 5(1), 37–53. doi: 10.52585/icvs.v5i1.22

Stutaite, G., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Helgesson, M., Kautzky, A., Finnes, A., & Gémes, K. (2025). Working life patterns after sickness absence due to depression: A 15-year register-based prospective cohort study. J Affect Disord, 379:822-834. Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2025.03.073  

Taouk, Y., King, T., Leineweber, C., Churchill, B., Ruppanner, L., & Magnusson Hanson, L. L. (2025). Gender differences in work-family conflict and mental health of Swedish workers by childcare responsibilities: findings from the SLOSH cohort study. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 4231. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40257196. doi: 10.5271/sjweh.4231    

Doctoral theses

Stratification, Political Attitudes, and Radical Right Support: Evidence from Sweden and Europe. Stockholm University. 

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Bergman, Louise E. 2025. Health of self-employed workers: Capturing heterogenity, complexity, and temporal patterns. Stockholm University.

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Roland, M. 2025. Ischemic stroke in working ages: large vessel occlusion, work capacity and outcome after thrombectomy. Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital. Karolinska Institutet.

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Syk, Edvin. 2025. Quantifying (ine)quality: Job quality over half a century in Sweden and Europe. Stockholm University.

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