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View article: Offending and psychiatric disorders from age 20 to 63 among individuals with and without past experience of out-of-home care in Sweden: A prospective multi-trajectory cohort study
Offending and psychiatric disorders from age 20 to 63 among individuals with and without past experience of out-of-home care in Sweden: A prospective multi-trajectory cohort study Open
Individuals with childhood experience of out-of-home care (OHC) face elevated risks of criminal behavior and poor mental health compared with the majority population. Evidence on how trajectories of offending and psychiatric disorders cova…
View article: Trajectories of hospital‐presenting alcohol‐related disorders between early and late adulthood: Exploring the role of mortality in a prospective study of a 1953 cohort
Trajectories of hospital‐presenting alcohol‐related disorders between early and late adulthood: Exploring the role of mortality in a prospective study of a 1953 cohort Open
Background and aims Alcohol‐related disorders (ARDs) are associated with severe attributable harms that evolve throughout the life course, comprising distinct trajectories. Yet, how mortality affects the identification, shape and number of…
View article: Suicide and self-harm in adults with a history of out-of-home care—a Swedish national cohort study
Suicide and self-harm in adults with a history of out-of-home care—a Swedish national cohort study Open
Exposure to OHC during childhood is a major predictor for suicide and self-harm in young and middle-aged adults as well as among adult psychiatric patients.
View article: Parental Death and Premature Mortality in Individuals with Out-of-Home Care Experience in Sweden: A Nationwide Cohort Study
Parental Death and Premature Mortality in Individuals with Out-of-Home Care Experience in Sweden: A Nationwide Cohort Study Open
Experiences of out-of-home care (placement in foster-family care or residential care) and parental death in childhood are known risk factors for premature all-cause mortality. However, it remains unclear whether parental death during place…
View article: Parental Death and Premature Mortality in Individuals with Experience of Out-of-Home Care: A Nationwide Cohort Study
Parental Death and Premature Mortality in Individuals with Experience of Out-of-Home Care: A Nationwide Cohort Study Open
Experiences of out-of-home care (placement in foster-family care or residential care) and parental death in childhood are known risk factors for premature all-cause mortality. However, it remains unclear whether parental death during place…
View article: Trajectories of NEET in individuals formerly placed in out‐of‐home care: A Swedish national cohort study
Trajectories of NEET in individuals formerly placed in out‐of‐home care: A Swedish national cohort study Open
It is widely acknowledged that individuals with out‐of‐home care (OHC) experiences, including foster‐family care and residential care, face an increased risk of poor labour market attachment during emerging adulthood. However, limited unde…
View article: Heterogeneous effects of increased availability of alcohol on hospitalization due to external causes: quasi-experimental evidence from the introduction of Saturday opening at Swedish alcohol retail stores
Heterogeneous effects of increased availability of alcohol on hospitalization due to external causes: quasi-experimental evidence from the introduction of Saturday opening at Swedish alcohol retail stores Open
Responses to increased alcohol availability may vary across the population as a function of differential vulnerability. This study therefore aimed to examine the effects of the implementation of Saturday opening at the Swedish alcohol reta…
View article: Criminal outcomes among infants placed in out-of-home care: A longitudinal nationwide cohort study
Criminal outcomes among infants placed in out-of-home care: A longitudinal nationwide cohort study Open
Infant placement in care is associated with an increased risk of criminal activity over the life course.
View article: Offending trajectories from childhood to retirement age: Findings from the Stockholm birth cohort study
Offending trajectories from childhood to retirement age: Findings from the Stockholm birth cohort study Open
The current study explores heterogeneity in the aggregate age-crime curve. This is achieved by analyzing to what extent there is empirical support for the existence of pivotal typologies in developmental and life-course criminology, as wel…
View article: Gender-specific trajectories of offending from adolescence until age 40 among individuals with experience of out-of-home care: A national cohort study
Gender-specific trajectories of offending from adolescence until age 40 among individuals with experience of out-of-home care: A national cohort study Open
It is well-known that experiences of out-of-home care (OHC; foster-family care and residential care) are linked to criminal behavior. Less is known how criminal activity in the OHC population develops over the life course and to what exten…
View article: Timing of higher education completion in out-of-home care experienced individuals: On schedule or delayed?
Timing of higher education completion in out-of-home care experienced individuals: On schedule or delayed? Open
It is well known that individuals with out-of-home care (OHC) experience tend to have lower educational attainment than their peers in young adulthood, and a number of interventions have been implemented to increase their higher education …
View article: Cardiovascular disease in individuals with a history of out-of-home care: a Swedish national cohort study
Cardiovascular disease in individuals with a history of out-of-home care: a Swedish national cohort study Open
Background Individuals with a history of out-of-home care in childhood experience elevated rates of mortality from all-causes and suicide in adulthood but the relationship with chronic disease is unknown. We examined the association betwee…
View article: Associations between out-of-home care and mental health disorders within and across generations in a Swedish birth cohort
Associations between out-of-home care and mental health disorders within and across generations in a Swedish birth cohort Open
Previous studies have shown that mental health disorders (MHD) among parents might be an important mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of out-of-home care (OHC). The current study aimed to further study this interplay by invest…
View article: Intergenerational transmission of placement in out-of-home care: Mediation and interaction by educational attainment
Intergenerational transmission of placement in out-of-home care: Mediation and interaction by educational attainment Open
Having completed upper secondary school seems to reflect processes of resilience with the potential to break the intergenerational transmission of placement in OHC. These findings suggest that the impact of enhanced educational attainment …
View article: Intergenerational transmission of out-of-home care and the role of mental health problems: Findings from Stockholm birth cohort multigenerational study
Intergenerational transmission of out-of-home care and the role of mental health problems: Findings from Stockholm birth cohort multigenerational study Open
Out-of-home care (OHC) experiences are associated with poor long-term outcomes throughout life. However, the continuity of OHC over generations is not fully explored, and the influence of mental health problems (MHP) and socioeconomic cond…
View article: Primary and Secondary Effects on Long‐Term Educational Outcomes of Individuals with Experience of Child Welfare Interventions
Primary and Secondary Effects on Long‐Term Educational Outcomes of Individuals with Experience of Child Welfare Interventions Open
It is well known that individuals with experience of child welfare interventions – here conceptualised as placement in out‐of‐home care (OHC) – tend to have substantially poorer educational outcomes compared to their peers. Numerous explan…
View article: An applied guide to quantitative methods with Stata
An applied guide to quantitative methods with Stata Open
Changes in Version 1.1:Minor corrections throughout the publication.Content The purpose of this guide is to provide both a basic understanding of statistical concepts (know-why) as well as instructions for analysing quantitative data in St…
View article: Long‐term NEET among young adults with experience of out‐of‐home care: A comparative study of three Nordic countries
Long‐term NEET among young adults with experience of out‐of‐home care: A comparative study of three Nordic countries Open
Previous research suggests that young adults from out‐of‐home care (OHC) are at high risk of low education and unemployment. However, there are no studies on their risk of long‐term NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training). This stu…
View article: Association of Child Placement in Out-of-Home Care With Trajectories of Hospitalization Because of Suicide Attempts From Early to Late Adulthood
Association of Child Placement in Out-of-Home Care With Trajectories of Hospitalization Because of Suicide Attempts From Early to Late Adulthood Open
The findings suggest that the elevated risk of suicide attempts among former child welfare clients does not cease after young adulthood, indicating the necessity for clinical attention to childhood experiences of OHC as a risk marker for s…
Inequalities in educational outcomes in individuals with childhood experience of out-of-home care: What are driving the differences? Open
The large influence of the unequal distribution of predictors suggests that policy efforts are needed to promote equity in the distribution of factors contributing to educational achievement and attainment. Since cognitive ability was foun…
View article: A practical guide to quantitative methods with SPSS
A practical guide to quantitative methods with SPSS Open
The purpose of this guide is to provide both basic understanding of statistical concepts (know-why) as well as practical tools to analyse quantitative data in SPSS (know-how). We wanted to keep the guide completely free of formulas (i.e. b…
View article: Educational outcomes of children from long-term foster care: Does foster parents’ educational attainment matter?
Educational outcomes of children from long-term foster care: Does foster parents’ educational attainment matter? Open
Parental education is a robust predictor of children’s educational outcomes in general population studies, yet little is known about the intergenerational transmission of educational outcomes in alternative family settings such as children…
View article: Do trajectories of economic, work- and health-related disadvantages explain child welfare clients’ increased mortality risk? A prospective cohort study
Do trajectories of economic, work- and health-related disadvantages explain child welfare clients’ increased mortality risk? A prospective cohort study Open
Individuals who come to the attention of the child welfare services, regardless of whether they are placed in out-of-home care or not, continue to be at risk of adverse outcomes across the life course. Preventing them from following trajec…
View article: Outcomes in adulthood of adoption after long-term foster care: A sibling study
Outcomes in adulthood of adoption after long-term foster care: A sibling study Open
Prior research has reported a positive impact of adoption on developmental outcomes for children with experience of foster care. To inform decisions about permanent care arrangements, we used Swedish national population registers to create…
View article: Coexisting Social, Economic, and Health-Related Disadvantages in More than 2.4 Million Swedes: Combining Variable-Centred and Person-Centred Approaches
Coexisting Social, Economic, and Health-Related Disadvantages in More than 2.4 Million Swedes: Combining Variable-Centred and Person-Centred Approaches Open
The notion of coexisting disadvantages has been recognised in social welfare policy and welfare research, not least in the Nordic countries. The prevalence and patterning of coexisting disadvantages in society have far reaching implication…