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Occupational medicine, mixed methods, common mental disorder, rehabilitation,
return to work

I'm docent/associate professor in occupational medicine, research group
leader and currently hold a senior researcher position at the unit of
intervention- and impelmentation research for worker health.
2008 PhD in caring science.
1998 Reg Nurse
2001 Postgraduate diploma in specialist nursing, district nursing
2008 PhD in Caring Science

I'm a research group leader at KI, and the overall objective for my research
group is to contribute to the development and evaluation of evidence based
methods in the field of prevention of sickness absence and rehabilitation of
persons on sick leave due to common mental disorders and back/neck pain, i.e.
the two main areas dominating registered sickness absence. In addition, I've
broad knowledge in qualitative methods and in identifying ethical issues that
might arise when using new interventions within health care settings.
I'm the PI of the project Effects on sick leave of a problem-solving
intervention involving employees at risk of developing common mental
disorders and their managers (PRIME). We will test a workplace intervention
targeting first line managers. The aims are to 1) evaluate the problem
solving intervention’s effect on sickness absence among employees at
high-risk for future sickness absence due to common mental disorders; 2)
evaluate whether and to what extent it was possible to adhere to the
intervention’s protocol, the relationship between the intervention’s key
elements and the effect outcome, and to identify the facilitators and
barriers to the intervention among supervisors and employees, 3) explore the
supervisor’s organizational resources and the employee’s working/private
life-balance and the impact on the effect outcome. The study will be
conducted as a randomized controlled trial in private sector companies.
Funded by AFA Insurance. The project starts during the autumn 2020 and
runs until end of 2024.

 
I’m the PI of the project A problem solving based intervention as an
intervention in primary health care for facilitating return-to-work among
people suffering from common mental disorders – a cluster-randomized trial
(PROSA). Problem solving therapy involving the workplace is an evidence-based
intervention with promising effects on return-to-work among persons with
common mental disorders. A key element is cooperation between the person on
sick leave, his/her employer and health care professionals. The aim is to
evaluate the effects of problem solving therapy in the Swedish primary health
care system in an employed population on sick leave due to common mental
disorders. In addition, we will conduct a systematic identification of
ethical aspects from the perspectives of different stakeholders concerning a
work-focused problem solving intervention and economic evaluation of a
work-focused problem solving intervention, compared to care as usual.
The project is conducted by a multidisciplinary research group with
researchers from ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡, University of Gothenburg, University
of Linköping and University of Groeningen, the Netherlands.
I’m the project leader for Facilitators and barriers to coordination of
return to work, and ethical issues which raises from such coordination among
employees on sick leave due to common mental disorders. Qualitative design. A
multidisciplinary research group with researchers from ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡,
university of Uppsala and University of Linköping conduct the project, with
funding from AFA Insurance.
Together with researchers at the unit, I’ve performed evaluations of the
national rehabilitation guarantee. In these, we have explored the effects of
the guarantee on sick leave, how the guarantee has been implemented
nationwide in Sweden and to what extent workplace interventions are
implemented and used.