2023
Solberg, Ø., Nissen, A. & Saboonchi, F. (2023) Post-migration stressors, mental health and well-being in resettled refugees from Syria: Do individuals’ coping strategies matter?. Confl Health 17, 60 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-023-00556-3
Kirchner, S., Amin, R., Niederkrotenthaler T., Cullen, AE., Gémes K., Helgesson, M., & Mittendorfer-Rutz, E. (2023) Period effects in the risk of labour market marginalization among refugees in Sweden: a register-based cohort study. Eur J Public Health. 2023 Feb 3;33(1):106-113. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckac156.
Gunnarsson, D., Larsson S., Vikdahl, L. (2023) Legal Conditions for Refugees’ Mental Health: Implications of Legislative Changes in Programs for Newly Arrived Refugees in Sweden. Challenges 14 (3), 32. https://doi.org/10.3390/challe14030032
Vikdahl, L., Gunnarsson, D., Larsson, S. (2023) ‘This is what it is like to be church’: the Church of Sweden’s conditions for work with newly arrived refugees. Int. Migration & Integration. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-023-01053-5
2022
Sengoelge M., Nissen, A., Solberg, Ø. (2022) Post-Migration Stressors and Health-Related Quality of Life in Refugees from Syria Resettled in Sweden. International journal of environmental research and public health 19 (5), 2509. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19052509
Larsson S., Gunnarsson D., & Vikdahl L. (2022) Social Participation and Mental Health in the Establishment Programme for Newly Arrived Refugees in Sweden—A Document Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 8: 4518. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084518
2021
Nilsson H., Gustavsson C., Gottvall M., & Saboonchi F. (2021) Physical activity, post-traumatic stress disorder, and exposure to torture among asylum seekers in Sweden: a cross-sectional study. BMC Psychiatry 21, 452. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03461-2
Nissen A., Sengoelge M., & Solberg Ø. (2021) Post-migration Stressors and Subjective Well-Being in Adult Syrian Refugees Resettled in Sweden: A Gender Perspective. Front. Public Health 9:717353. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.717353
Okenwa-Emegwa L., Tinghög P., Vaez M., & Saboonchi F. (2021) Exposure to Violence Among Syrian Refugee Women Preflight and During Flight: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Sweden. SAGE Open. July. doi:10.1177/21582440211031555
Hägg Martinell, A., Eriksson, H., Ekstrand, P., Schuster, M., & Larsen, J. (2021). Social Participation as Reported by Civil Servants and Volunteers Working with Newly Arrived Immigrants in Sweden : Qualitative Data from a Delphi Study. Journal of Identity and Migration Studies, 15(1), 98–114.
Larsen, J., Eriksson, H., & Hägg Martinell, A. (2021). A Scoping Review of Delphi Studies Concerning Social Participation of Refugees in Health Services. JAMK Journal of Health and Social Studies, e1–e10
Helgesson M., Rahman S., Saboonchi F., & Mittendorfer Rutz E. Disability pension and mortality in individuals with specific somatic and mental disorders: examining differences between refugees and Swedish-born individuals. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2021 Jan 20:jech-2019-213436. doi: 10.1136/jech-2019-213436. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33472869.
Solberg Ø., Sengoelge M., Nissen A., & Saboonchi F. Coping in Limbo? The Moderating Role of Coping Strategies in the Relationship between Post-Migration Stress and Well-Being during the Asylum-Seeking Process. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jan 23;18(3):1004. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18031004. PMID: 33498731; PMCID: PMC7908179.
Solberg Ø., Sengoelge M., Johnson-Singh CM., Vaez M., Eriksson AK, & Saboonchi F. Health-related quality of life in refugee minors from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan resettled in Sweden: a nation-wide, cross-sectional study. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2021 Mar 22. doi: 10.1007/s00127-021-02050-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33754158.
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Folkhälsomyndigheten, Röda Korsets Högskola. Hälsa, livskvalitet och levnadsförhållanden bland asylsökande barn och unga i Sverige. Resultat från en enkätstudie genomförd 2018–2019. Rapport, 2021.
Folkhälsomyndigheten, Röda Korsets Högskola. Socialt deltagande och psykisk hälsa bland flyktingar. Resultat från en kartläggande litteraturöversikt om begreppet socialt deltagande och om sambandet mellan flyktingars sociala deltagande och psykiska hälsa. Rapport, 2021.
2020
Gottvall M., Sjölund S., Arwidson C. & Saboonchi, F. Health-related quality of life among Syrian refugees resettled in Sweden. Qual Life Res 29, 505–514 (2020). doi: 10.1007/s11136-019-02323-5
Malm A., Tinghög P., Narusyte J. & Saboonchi F. The refugee post-migration stress scale (RPMS) – development and validation among refugees from Syria recently resettled in Sweden. Confl Health 14, 2 (2020).doi: 10.1186/s13031-019-0246-5
Nissen A, Cauley P, Saboonchi F, Andersen A. & Solberg Ø. Cohort profile: Resettlement in Uprooted Groups Explored (REFUGE)—a longitudinal study of mental health and integration in adult refugees from Syria resettled in Norway between 2015 and 2017. BMJ Open 2020;10:e 036101. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036101
Niederkrotenthaler T., Mittendorfer-Rutz E., Saboonchi F. & Helgesson M. The role of refugee status and mental disorders regarding subsequent labour market marginalisation: a register study from Sweden. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2020;55(6):697-704. doi:10.1007/s00127-020-01842-8
Vikdahl, L., Ståhle, G., Gunnarsson, D. and Saboonchi, F. (2020), "Diversity and health strategies for newly resettled refugees", International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 241-252. doi:10.1108/IJMHSC-08-2019-0076
Sengoelge M., Solberg Ø., Nissen A., & Saboonchi F. Exploring Social and Financial Hardship, Mental Health Problems and the Role of Social Support in Asylum Seekers Using Structural Equation Modelling. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 6948; doi:10.3390/ijerph17196948
Solberg Ø., Nissen A., Vaez M., Cauley P., Eriksson AK., & Saboonchi F. Children at risk: A nation-wide, cross-sectional study examining post-traumatic stress symptoms in refugee minors from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan resettled in Sweden between 2014 and 2018. Confl Health 14, 67 (2020). doi: 10.1186/s13031-020-00311-y
2019
Sengoelge M., Johnson-Singh C., Mittendorfer-Rutz E., Vaez M. & Saboonchi F. Identifying subgroups of refugees from Syria resettled in Sweden based on multiple trauma exposures: A latent class analysis of trauma history and mental health outcomes. Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 2019;125.
Gottvall M., Vaez M. & Saboonchi F. Social support attenuates the link between torture exposure and post-traumatic stress disorder among male and female Syrian refugees in Sweden. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 2019
Helgesson M., Wang M., Niederkrotenthaler T., Saboonchi F. & Mittendorfer-Rutz E. Labour market marginalisation among refugees from different countries of birth: A prospective cohort study on refugees to Sweden. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 2019
Emegwa L., Saboonchi F. & Tinghög P. Prevalence and Predictors of Low Future Expectations among Syrian Refugees Resettled in Sweden. Heliyon. 2019
Silow Kallenberg K. & Sigvardsdotter E. Om Sverige, svenskhet och de Andra: Berättelser och tystnader i samhällsorientering för nyanlända. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys. 2019
Niemi M., Manhica H., Gunnarsson D., Ståhle G., Larsson S. & Saboonchi F. A Scoping Review and Conceptual Model of Social Participation and Mental Health among Refugees and Asylum Seekers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019
Solberg Ø., Vaez M., Johnson-Singh C. & Saboonchi F. Asylum-seekers' psychosocial situation: A diathesis for post-migratory stress and mental health disorders?. J Psychosom Res. 2020;130:109914. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2019.109914
Gottvall M., Sjölund S., Arwidsson C. & Saboonchi F. Health-Related Quality of Life among Syrian refugees resettled in Sweden – A cross-sectional study. Quality of life research. 2019
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Emegwa, L. & Saboonchi, F. Family conflict mediates the relationship between past violence and wellbeing among female refugees. 12th EPH conference 2019
Silow Kallenberg K. & Sigvardsdotter E. Reluctant hospitality? Othering in the Swedish civic orientation education for newly arrived immigrants. Presented at the Hospitality, hostility and everything in between in an era of forced displacement conference, Stockholm, 25-26 April, 2019
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Folkhälsomyndigheten, Röda Korsets Högskola. Hur mår nyanlända barn i Sverige? Resultat från en kartläggning av hälsa, livskvalitet och levnadsförhållanden bland barn från Afghanistan, Irak och Syrien. Rapport, 2019
2018
Silow Kallenberg K. & Sigvardsdotter E. Från omhändertagande till ansvarstagande. Nyliberal hälsa i etableringen av nyanlända. Kulturella perspektiv. 2018;34(27):46-56.
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Larsen J., Sigvardsdotter E., Silow Kallenberg K. & Eriksson H. The Delphi method to explore under-researched areas in nursing. The Nordic Conference of Nursing Research, Oslo, 13-15 June 2018.
Manhica H., Niemi M., Gunnarsson D., Ståhle G., Larsson S. & Saboonchi F. Social participation, mental health in refugees and asylum seekers: A scoping review. Winds of change: towards new ways of improving public health in Europe; Ljubljana European Journal of Public Health; 2018.
Emegwa L., Saboonchi F. & Tinghög P. Prevalence and predictors of violence among Syrian refugee women resettled in Sweden. Winds of change: towards new ways of improving public health in Europe; Ljubljana: European Journal of Public Health 2018. p. 213-457.
Saboonchi F. Forced migration, modeling the post-resettlement social contexts of refugee’s mental health. In 16th pre-conference of the EUPHA Section on Social Security, Work & Health. 2018
Silow Kallenberg K. & Sigvardsdotter E. "About Sweden” – Narratives of Swedishness in social orientation courses for newly arrived immigrants. 19th Nordic Migration Research Conference; Norrköping2018.
Silow Kallenberg K. & Sigvardsdotter E. Healthy life choices for refugees? Mental health in the Swedish civic orientation education for newly arrived immigrants. The Refugees, Borders and Membership Conference, Malmö 2018.
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Vikdahl L, Gunnarsson D, Larsen, J. Ståhle, G. Saboonchi, F. Mångfald och hälsa: En kartläggning av vilka kunskapsbehov som finns hos några samhällsaktörer i Södertörnregionen gällande mångfald och hälsa, med fokus på nyanländas etablering: Flemingberg science; 2018.
2017
Sigvardsdotter E., Nilsson H., Malm A., Tinghög P., Gottvall M., Vaez M. & Saboonchi F. Development and Preliminary Validation of Refugee Trauma History Checklist (RTHC)—A Brief Checklist for Survey Studies. International journal of environmental research and public health 2017;14:1175-85.
Tinghög P., Malm A., Arwidsson C., Sigvardsdotter E., Lundin A. & Saboonchi F. Prevalence of mental ill health, traumas and postmigration stress among refugees from Syria resettled in Sweden after 2011: a population-based survey. BMJ open. 2017;7.
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Emegwa L., Tinghög P. & Saboonchi F. Depression and Low Labour Market and Social Expectations among Resettled Syrian Refugees in Sweden. 10th European Public Health Conference: European Journal of Public Health; 2017.
Tinghög P., Malm A., Arwidsson C., Sigvardsdotter E. & Saboonchi F. Mental ill-health, trauma and adverse post-migratory experiences among refugees from Syria in Sweden. 10th European Public Health Conference: European Journal of Public Health; 2017.
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Saboonchi F, Metso F. Psykisk hälsa – en förutsättning för integration och hållbar samhällsutveckling. 12 vägar till Global hälsa – Från forskning till Policy: Global utmaning 2017.
2016
Sigvardsdotter E., Malm A., Tinghög P., Saboonchi F. Refugee trauma measurement: a review of existing checklists. Public Health Reviews 2016;37(10)
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Malm A., Tinghög P. & Saboonchi F. The development of a self-assessment scale for measuring post-migration stress among refugees. The IRCT 10th International Scientific Symposium: Delivering on the promise of the right to rehabilitation. Mexico City, 5-9 December 2016.
Malm A., Tinghög P. & Saboonchi F. Post-migration stress among refugees–development of a new scale and associations with wellbeing. European Health Psychologist. 2016 18(S), 651.
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Tinghög, P., Arwidson, C., Sigvardsdotter, E., Malm, A., & Saboonchi, F. Nyanlända och asylsökande i Sverige: En studie av psykisk ohälsa, trauma och levnadsvillkor. Röda Korsets Högskolas rapportserie. 2016 2016:1