Publications autumn 2025
In the past few years, REWHARD data have been used in 400 scientific publications. In the last six months, 13 papers have been published. Below you can see a list of the latest articles and reports.

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Articles in international scientific journals
Agahi, N., Augustsson, E., McGarrigle, C., Rostgaard, T. & Fritzell, J. (2024). Psychosocial resilience surrounding age-typical losses among older adults in Sweden: Group-based trajectories over a 25-year-period. Frontiers in Public Health, 12:1434439. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1434439
Ármannsdóttir, B., Taipale, H., Akhtar, A., Kautzky, A., Björkenstam, E., Lieslehto, J., Tiihonen, J., Amin, R. & Mittendorfer-Rutz, E. (2024). Labor market marginalization in individuals with bipolar disorder: a Swedish nationwide register-based sibling comparison study. Psychological Medicine, 1–11. Online publication. doi: 10.1017/S0033291724002903
Farrants, K. & Alexanderson, K. (2024). Sickness absence after work accidents and post-traumatic stress among white-collar workers in the retail and wholesale industry; a longitudinal Swedish cohort study. BMC Public Health, 24, 2389. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19865-0
Helgesson, M., Pettersson, E., Lindsäter, E., Taipale, H., Tanskanen, A., Mittendorfer-Rutz, E. & Cullen, AE. (2024). Trajectories of work disability among individuals with anxiety-, mood/affective-, or stress-related disorders in a primary healthcare setting. BMC Psychiatry, 24, 623. doi: 10.1186/s12888-024-06068-5
Hensing, G., Müller, M., Ulfsdotter Eriksson, Y., Alexanderson, K. & Farrants, K. (2024.) Occupational prestige and future sickness absence and disability pension in women and men: a Swedish nationwide prospective cohort study. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. Epub ahead of print 5 September 2024. doi: 10.1177/14034948241272936
Hiyoshi, A., Alexanderson, K., Tinghög, P., Cao, Y., Fall, K. & Montgomery, S. (2024). Future sick leave, disability pension, and unemployment among patients with cancer after returning to work: Swedish register-based matched prospective cohort study. Cancer, 1-9. Epub ahead of print 8 October 2024. doi: 10.1002/cncr.35580
Magnusson Hanson, LL. (2024). Exposure to work-related sexual violence and health. Lancet Public Health, 9(6):e348-e349. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00101-4
Prakash, KC., Madsen, IEH., Rugulies, R., Xu, T., Westerlund, H., Nyberg, A., Kivimäki, M. & Magnusson Hanson, LL. (2024). 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, 31(13):1633-1642. doi: 10.1093/eurjpc/zwae178
Roland, M., Rudberg, AS., Alexanderson, K. & Sjöstrand, C. (2024). Sickness absence and disability pension patterns before and after ischemic stroke: A Swedish longitudinal cohort study with matched references. European Stroke Journal. Epub ahead of print 14 June 2024. doi: 10.1177/23969873241261011
Ropponen, A., Petterson, E., Narusyte, J. & Svedberg, P. Sequences of sickness absence, disability pension, and unemployment four years before and five years after musculoskeletal diagnosis among Swedish twins. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. Epub 31 October 2024. doi: 10.1177/14034948241284041/
Stengård, J., Leineweber, C. & Berthelsen, H. (2024). Illegitimate work tasks: an investigation of psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the BITS instrument and its suitability in human versus 'non-human' service occupations. BMC Public Health, 24(1):1935. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19393-x
Tareq, H., Nyberg, A., Wennberg, P., Redmalm, P., Toivanen, S. & Mensah, A. (2024). Prevalence of problem drinking in the Swedish workforce: differences between labour market industries based on gender composition and main job activity. BMC Public Health, 24(1):2683. doi: doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-20163-y
Åkerstedt, T., Eriksson, J., Freyland, S., Widman, L., Magnusson Hanson, LL. & Miley-Åkerstedt, A. Changes in sleep quality, sleep duration, and sickness absence: A longitudinal study with repeated measures. Healthcare, 12(14):1393. doi: 10.3390/healthcare12141393
Other reports
Stenfors, CUD., Stengård, J., Magnusson Hanson, LL. & Westerlund, H. (2024). Utvecklingen av den organisatoriska och psykosociala arbetsmiljön på den svenska arbetsmarknaden innan och under covid-19-pandemin (2014–2022). En longitudinell kohortstudie av arbetsmiljöns utveckling under tiden innan respektive i den tidiga samt senare fasen av pandemin, i den Svenska Longitudinella studien Om Sociala förhållanden, arbetsliv och Hälsa (SLOSH). Rapport 2024:8, ISBN 978-91-89747-72-2, Myndigheten för Arbetsmiljökunskap. Originalforskningsrapport.
Doctoral thesis
Klein, Y. (2024). The role of nature exposure for mental health outcomes. Population-based studies of adults in Sweden, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Doctoral thesis, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University.
Last updated: 2025-12-16
Source: REWHARD