Publications autumn 2025

Articles in international scientific journals

Augustsson, E., Keller Celeste, R., Fors, S., Rehnberg, J., Lennartsson, C., & Agahi, N. (2025). Friends and trends: Friendship across life phases and cohorts. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 135, 105872. doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2025.105872

Berglund, E., Friberg, E., & Svärd, V. (2025). Receiving Return-To-Work Coordination at Swedish Primary Healthcare Clinics: A Register-Based Study Among People on Sickness Absence. J Occup Rehabil, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s10926-025-10330-2

Blomqvist, S., Högnäs, R. S., Farrants, K., Friberg, E., & Magnusson Hanson, L. (2025). Exploring the Link Between Perceived Job Insecurity and Sickness Absence for Common Mental Disorders. European Journal of Public Health, 35(4):650-656. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaf023

Brenner, P., Taipale, H., Josefsson, P., DiBernardo, A., Tanskanen, A., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., & Reutfors, J. (2025). Psychiatric outcomes and long-term school and work-related disability in offspring of parents with depression and treatment-resistant depression. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s00127-025-02988-z

Chungkham, H. S., Leineweber, C., Magnusson Hanson, L., Westerlund, H., & Kecklund, G. (2025). The Long-Lasting Stress Scale (LLSS): Psychometric evaluation of a brief stress scale in the SLOSH cohort study. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 46(3):766-785. doi: 10.1177/0143831X251350449

Cullen, A. E., de Montgomery, C. J., Pettersson, E., Akhtar, A., Norredam, M., Taipale, H., & Mittendorfer-Rutz, E. (2025). Associations of migrant and refugee status with physical comorbidity and mortality among young adults with incident non-affective psychotic disorders. BMC Public Health, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-24054-8

Cybulski, L., Pettersson, E., Alexanderson, K., & Farrants, K. (2025). Associations between prior and subsequent sickness absence before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Swedish prospective cohort study of 306,933 blue-collar workers in the retail and wholesale industry. BMJ Open, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-096764

Cybulski, L., Pettersson, E., Alexanderson, K., & Farrants, K. (2025). Associations between diagnoses linked with adverse COVID-19-related outcomes and sickness absence due to COVID-19 or COVID-19 like diagnoses: a prospective Swedish cohort study of 292,274 blue-collar workers in the retail and wholesale industry. Eur J Public Health, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaf177

Guo, J., Magnusson Hanson, L. L., Åkerstedt, T., & Hedström, A. K. (2025). Trajectories of sleep characteristics and incident cardiovascular disease. Sleep Medicine, 136:106820. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2025.106820

Kautzky, A., Virtanen, M., Alexanderson, K., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., & Gémes, K. (2025). Ten-year working life sequences in women and men following sickness absence due to common mental disorders: A Swedish prospective cohort study. J Affect Disord, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2025.120353

Kirchner, S., Gémes, K., Josefsson, P., Haro, J. M., Felez-Nobrega, M., Taipale, H., Sijbrandij, M., Witteveen, A. B., Melchior, M., Caggiu, G., Conflitti, C., Lora, A., Compagnoni, M. M., Bergström, J., & Mittendorfer-Rutz, E. (2025). Sickness absence due to common mental disorders and antidepressant prescription among health and social care workers during as compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic - a nationwide register study of the Swedish population. J Occup Health, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1093/joccuh/uiaf067

Kirchner, S., Gémes, K., Josefsson, P., Niederkrotenthaler, T., Melchior, M., Haro, J. M., Félez-Nóbrega, M., Sijbrandij, M., Witteveen, A. B., Hecker, I., Lora, A., Monzio Compagnoni, M., Conflitti, C., Caggiu, G., Bergström, J., & Mittendorfer-Rutz, E. (2025). Sickness absence with common mental disorders and antidepressant prescriptions across different employment branches during as compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic-an observational study covering the Swedish population aged 18-65 years. Eur J Public Health, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckaf145

Leineweber, C., Peristera, P., Eib, C., & Bernhard-Oettel, C. (2025). Patterns of Organisational Justice among Swedish Employees: Results from a Latent Profile Analysis. Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 10(1):id10. doi: 10.16993/sjwop.340

Leineweber, C., Stengård, J., & Berthelsen, H. (2025). Pandemin - ett kvasi-experiment på samhällsnivå med avtryck på arbetsmiljön. Arbetsmarknad & Arbetsliv, 31:54-73. doi: 10.58236/aa.26337

Lieslehto, J., Tiihonen, J., Lähteenvuo, M., Kautzky, A., Akhtar, A., Amin, R., Ármannsdóttir, B., Leucht, S., Correll, C. U., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Tanskanen, A., & Taipale, H. (2025). Relapse risk prediction in patients with first-episode bipolar disorder: development, external validation, and pharmacotherapy associations of a machine learning model. Mol Psychiatry, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1038/s41380-025-03316-2

Luykx, J. J., Colgan, M., Vieta, E., Hamina, A., Schulte, P. F. J., Correll, C. U., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Siskind, D., Lieslehto, J., Tanskanen, A., Tiihonen, J., & Taipale, H. (2025). Transdiagnostic effectiveness and safety of clozapine in individuals with psychotic, affective, and personality disorders: nationwide and meta-analytic comparisons with other antipsychotics. Lancet Psychiatry, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(25)00297-4

Luykx, J. J., Corbeil, O., Kärkkäinen, O., Tanskanen, A., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Tiihonen, J., & Taipale, H. (2025). Long term safety of ADHD medication in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Mol Psychiatry, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1038/s41380-025-03080-3

Martikainen, A., Alexanderson, K., Svedberg, P., & Farrants, K. (2025). Older health and social care workers' labour market patterns: a 16-year longitudinal study from ages 61-65 to 76-80. BMC Health Serv Res, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1186/s12913-025-13707-4

Martikainen, A., Alexanderson, K., Svedberg, P., & Farrants, K. (2025). Time until exit from paid work after ages 65-69 and ≥70, respectively: importance of prior sickness absence and disability pension. BMC Public Health, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-24425-1

Mood, C., & Kjellsson, S. (2025). Divergent incomes, divergent lives? A multidimensional assessment of disparities in the level of living during Sweden’s income equality U-turn, 1968–2010. Mens & Maatschappij, 100(2), 179–200. doi: 10.5117/MEM2025.2.004.MOOD

Mustonen, A., Taipale, H., Denissoff, A., Ellilä, V., Di Forti, M., Tanskanen, A., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Tiihonen, J., & Niemelä, S. (2025). Real-world effectiveness of antipsychotic medication in relapse prevention after cannabis-induced psychosis. Br J Psychiatry, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2025.72

Oldenburg, C., Kjeldgård, L., Stigson, H., & Friberg, E. (2025). Sickness absence >14 days following sport-related traumatic brain injuries: a nationwide register-based study in Sweden. BMC Public Health, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-23711-2

Peristera, P., Bergljottsdotter, C., & Leineweber, C. (2025). When home becomes the office: navigating challenges and embracing possibilities in telework in Sweden during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers of Psychology, 16:1516074. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1516074

Raza, A., Peristera, P., Lanki, T., Magnusson Hanson, L. L., Westerlund, H., & Halonen, J. I. (2025). Impacts of changing work from home patterns on health behaviours and obesity: insights from the late COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Public Health, 25(1):3970. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-25547-2

Ropponen, A., Alaie, I., Narusyte, J., & Svedberg, P. (2025). The role of common mental disorders on sustainable working life – a cohort study among discordant Swedish twin pairs. BMJ Open, 15(11):e101586. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2025-101586

Ström, P., Falkenberg, H., Pienaar, J., Leineweber, C., & Sverke, M. (2025). Demands and Resources in Retail: The Role of Occupational Status and COVID-19. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. doi: 10.18291/njwls.158617

Stutaite, G., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Helgesson, M., Farrants, K., & Gémes, K. (2025). Occupational Factors and Labor Market Outcomes Among Individuals with Sickness Absence due to Common Mental Disorders: A Population-Wide Cohort Study. J Occup Rehabil, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1007/s10926-025-10348-6

Taipale, H., Siskind, D., Tanskanen, A., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E., Correll, C. U., & Tiihonen, J. (2025). Real-world effectiveness of clozapine augmentation with antidepressants: within-subject data evidence from two European nationwide cohorts. Lancet Psychiatry, Epub ahead of print. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(25)00163-4

Wang, M., Svedberg, P., Silventoinen, K., Böckerman, P., Narusyte, J., & Ropponen, A. (2025). The role of health behaviours, genetic factors, and early life environment in the association of family-related events and sustainable working life. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, In press.

Wijkander, M., Holmgren, R., Westerlund, H., & Magnusson Hanson, L. L. (2025). Examining associations between upsizing, downsizing, workplace offensive behaviors and sickness absence due to common mental disorders - a longitudinal cohort study. BMC Public Health, 25(1):3965. doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-25203-9

Doctoral theses

Rantonen, O. 2025. Risk of mental disorders among social workers: comparative study between professions in nordic countries. Department of Psychology and Speech-Language Pathology, University of Turku.

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Scientific reports

Cybulski, L., Oelrich, O., & Alexanderson K. 2025. Förekomst av suicidalt beteende i samband med Försäkringskassans beslut om avslag av fortsatt sjukpenning. Avdelningen för försäkringsmedicin, Karolinska Institutet. ISBN 978-91-8017-614-9.

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Selected publications