A substantial number of spouses and offspring experience a family member with an illness while they remain working. The diagnoses of the patient reverberate in the family and cause substantial distress for the relatives.
The project Overlooked Children in Need (ORCHID): A Study on the Development and Well-Being of Children of Parents with Disabilities, aims to investigate the impact of parental disability on their children's outcomes from birth to young adulthood in Sweden, as well as to evaluate potential contributing and buffering factors, including the policy environment.
What are the associations between the death of a family member during the COVID-19 pandemic and the risk of in- and out-patient psychiatric care, use of psychotropic medication, mental health related sick-leave, and attempted and completed suicides among bereaved family members?
The aim of this research programme is to study how social, economic, and health-related inequalities in the parental generation re-emerge in subsequent generations as well as the extent to which siblings and friends may explain or break this reproduction.
