Forskning inom REMAIN

Syftet med forskningsmiljön REMAIN är att öka kunskapen och hitta strategier för att förbättra den sociala integrationen bland flyktingbarn och ungdomar med psykisk ohälsa.

REMAIN är uppbyggt i tre olika arbetspaket (AP):

  1. Hur påverkar trauma hos flyktingföräldrar sina barns psykiska och sociala situation (AP1).
  2. Hälsoutveckling och social integration bland flyktingbarn med psykisk ohälsa (AP2).
  3. Intervention och behandling av psykisk ohälsa hos flyktingbarn (AP3).

Vi kommer att utföra både etiologiska och prognostiska studier samt register- och interventionsstudier med internationella jämförelser. Våra forskningsresultat kommer att kunna bidra till skräddarsydda och kulturellt anpassade strategier för att förbättra social integration och psykisk hälsa bland flyktingbarn.

REMAIN startades år 2019.

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Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz har medverkat i Vetenskapsradions program På djupet där hon berättade om REMAIN och PM+ (problem management plus), en interventionsprogram utvecklad av WHO som har visat goda resultat hos människor med stressymtom, depression och ångest och som nu håller på att utvärderas även med studierna inom REMAIN.

Du kan lyssna på programmet här

Publikationer

  1. Alozkan Sever C, Cuijpers P, Dawson KS, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Akhtar A, Bryant RA, Sijbrandij M. Addressing challenges faced by young refugees in the Netherlands: Adapting problem management plus (PM+) with an emotional processing module. Global Mental Health 2024; 11:e80,1-12
  2. Alozkan Sever C, Cuijpers P, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Bryant R.A, Dawson K.S, Holmes E.A, Mooren T, Norredam M.L, Sijbrandij M. Feasibility and acceptability of Problem Management Plus with Emotional Processing (PM+EP) for refugee youth living in the Netherlands: study protocol. European Journal of Psychotraumatology 2021; 12:1,1947003.
  3. Alozkan-Sever C, Uppendahl J R, Cuijpers P, de Vries R, Rahman A, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Akhtar A, Zheng Z, Sijbrandij M. Research review: Psychological and psychosocial interventions for children and adoloscents with depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder in low- and middle-income countries – A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2023; 64(12):1776-1788
  4. Amin R, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Undem K, Mehlum IS, Hasting RL. Does country of resettlement influence the risk of labor market marginalization among refugees? A cohort study in Sweden and Norway. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health 2024;50(4):279-289
  5. Amin R, Rahman S, Dorner TE, Björkenstam E, Helgesson M, Norredam ML, Sijbrandij M, Alozkan Sever C, Mittendorfer-Rutz E. Country of birth, time period of resettlement and subsequent treated common mental disorders in young refugees in Sweden. European Journal of Public Health 2020; 30(6):1169-1175.
  6. Atarodi V, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Morillo-Cuadrado D, Mediavilla R, Felez-Nobrega M, Monistrol-Mula A, Smith P, Lorant V, Petri-Romao P, Sijbrandij M, Witteveen AB, Pinucci I, Monzio Compagnoni M, Conflitti C, Caggiu G, Melchior M, Vuillermoz C, Bergström J, Gémes K. 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 2025; 25:840.
  7. Berg L, Brendler-Lindquist M, de Montgomery E, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Hjern A. Parental posttraumatic stress and school perfomance in refugee children. Journal of Traumatic Stress 2022; 35(1):138-147
  8. Berg L, de Montgomery E, Brendler-Lindquist M, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Hjern A. Parental post-traumatic stress and psychiatric care utilisation among refugee adolescents. European Child & Adoloscent Psychiatry 2022; 31(12):1953-1962
  9. Björkenstam E, Helgesson M, Norredam M, Sijbrandij M, Montgomery CJ, Mittendorfer-Rutz E. Common mental disorders among young refugees in Sweden: The role of education and duration of residency. Journal of Affective Disorders 2020; 266:563-571.
  10. Björkestam E, Helgesson M, Norredam M, Sijbrandij M, de Montgomery CJ, Mittedorfer-Rutz E. Differences in psychiatric care utilization between refugees, non-refugees and Swedish-born youth. Psychological Medicine 2022;52(7):1365-1375
  11. Chen J, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Berg L, Norredam M, Sijbrandij M, Klimek P. Associations between multimorbidity patterns and subsequent labor market marginalization among refugees and Swedish-born young adults – A nationwide register-based cohort study. Journal of Personalized Medicine 2021, 11, 1305.
  12. Chen J, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Berg L, Norredam M, Sijbrandij M, Klimek P. Association of common mental disorders and related multimorbidity with subsequent labor market marginalization among refugee and Swedish-born young adults. Frontiers in Public Health 2023; 11:1054261
  13. Chen J, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Taipale H, Rahman S, Niederkrotenthaler T, Klimek P. Association of medication clusters and subsequent labor market marginalisation in refugee and Swedish born young adults with common mental disorders in Sweden. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2024; 33(3):897-907
  14. Cullen AE, de Montgomery CJ, Norredam M, Bergström J, Krasnik A, Taipale H, Mittendorfer-Rutz E. Comparison of Hospitalization for Nonaffective Psychotic Disorders Among Refugee, Migrant, and Native-Born Adults in Sweden and Denmark. JAMA Network Open 2023; 6(10): e2336848
  15. de Montgomery C J, Cullen A E, Taipale H, Krasnik A, Norredam M, Mittendorfer-Rutz E. Incidence of non-affective psychotic disorders in refugees and peers growing up in Denmark and Sweden: A registry linkage study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2024;59(7):1153-1165
  16. De Montgomery CJ, Falah Rasmussen A, Bergström J, Taipale H, Akhtar A, Krasnik A, Nörredam M, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Cullen AE. Refugee migration background and healthcare contacts prior to first-episode psychosis in young adults in Denmark and Sweden: Are patterns consistent across countries? Early Intervention in Psychiatry 2025; 19:e70039
  17. De Montgomery CJ, Faurholdt I M, Cullen A E, Taipale H, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Krasnik A, Norredam M. Involuntary admissions for non-affective psychotic disorder in young refugees and peers in Denmark: A population cohort study. Schizophrenia Research 2024;270:366-371
  18. De Montgomery CJ, Norredam M, Krasnik A, Petersen JH, Björkenstam E, Berg L, Hjern A, Sijbrandij M, Klimek P, Mittendorfer-Rutz E. Labour market marginalisation in young refugees and their majority peers in Denmark and Sweden: The role of common mental disorders and secondary school completion. PloS One 2022; 17(2):e0263450.
  19. Di Thiene D, Helgesson M, Rahman S, Alexanderson K, Tiihonen J, La Torre G, Mittendorfer-Rutz E. Risk of labour market marginalisation among young refugees and non-refugee migrants with common mental disorders. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2021;56(6):1025-1034
  20. Geirsdottir G, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Amin R. Risk of suicide attempt and suicide in young adult refugees compared to their Swedish-born peers: a register-based cohort study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2021; 56(12):2163-2173
  21. Geirsdottir G, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Björkenstam E, Chen L, Dorner T E, Amin R. Differences in labour market marginalisation between refugees, non-refugee immigrants and Swedish-born youth: Role of age at arrival and residence duration. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 2023;51(3):391-402
  22. Kronsell A, Nordenskjöld A, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Tiger M. Long-term follow-up on patient attitudes towards renewedECT: A register-based cohort study. Journal of Psychiatric Research 2024;177:24-30
  23. Mastafa S, de Montgomery C J, Pettersson E, Norredam M, Krasnik A, Taipale H, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Cullen A E. Risk of unemployment and work disability among refugee and non-refugee migrants with incident psychotic disorders in Sweden and Denmark. European Journal of Public Health 2024;34(1):129-135
  24. Rahman S, Filatova S, Chen L, Björkenstam E, Taipale H, Mittendorfer-Rutz E. Trajectories of antidepressant use and characteristics associated with trajectory groups among young refugees and their Swedish-born peers with diagnosed common mental disorders – findings from the REMAIN study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2022;57(2):305-317
  25. Spaton Goppers J, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Cullen A E, Jamil de Montgomery C, Tanskanen A, Norredam M, Taipale H. Antipsychotic treatment patterns in refugees and their Swedish-born peers with first-episode non-affective psychosis: Findings from the REMAIN study. BJPsych Open 2023; 9(3):e57.
  26. Stratmann M, Björkenstam E, Dorner T E, Chen L, Helgesson M, Cullen A E, Mittendorfer-Rutz E. Differences in all-cause and cause-specific mortality due to external causes and suicide between young adult refugees, non-refugee immigrants and Swedish-born young adults: The role of education and migration-related factors. Plos One 2022; 17(12):e0279096
  27. Taipale H, Niederkrotenthaler T, Helgesson M, Sijbrandij M, Berg L, Tanskanen A, Mittendorfer-Rutz E. Initiation of antidepressant use among refugee and Swedish-born youth after diagnosis of a common mental disorder – findings from the REMAIN study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2020;56(3):463-474.
  28. Taipale H, Niederkrothenthaler T, Tanskanen A, Cullen A.E, Helgesson M, Berg L, Sijbrandij M, Klimek P, Mittendorfer-Rutz E. Persistence of antidepressant use among refugee youth with common mental disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders 2021; 294:831-837.
  29. Terp AM, Habashneh R, Brown FL, Abualhaija A, Aqel IS, Ghatasheh M, Bryant R, Jordans MJD, Malik A, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Akhtar A. Facilitators and barriers to participation and scale-up of a non-speicialist delivered psychological intervention for adolescents in low-resourced settings: A process evaluation. BMC Public Health 2025; 25;725
  30. Uppendahl, J., Alozkan-Sever, C., Cuijpers, P., de Vries, R., & Sijbrandij, M. Psychological and Psychosocial Interventions for PTSD, Depression and Anxiety Among Children and Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in Psychiatry 2020;10:933. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00933
  31. Yang L, Mittendorfer-Rutz E, Amin R, Helgesson M. Risk factors for common mental disorders in young refugees from Iran, Somalia and Syria to Sweden. Journal of  Public Health 2023;45(3):593-603
Innehållsgranskare:
Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
Annika Evolahti
2025-04-24