Category Archives: SWIFT

ICON member Sandra Rogne participated in a Swedish nationwide cohort study examining whether parental death during childhood influences the association between out-of-home care and psychiatric disorders in adulthood. About the study Children and adolescents who experience out-of-home care (OHC) face an increased risk of psychiatric disorders later in life. Parental death during childhood is alsoContinue reading “Parental Death and Psychiatric Disorders Among Individuals with and Without Experience of Out-of-Home Care: A Swedish Nationwide Cohort Study”

Children placed in out-of-home care (OHC) are likely to have experienced substantial adversity early. Although OHC is intended to provide these children with improved life chances, research has consistently found them to be at greater risk of long-term health and socioeconomic disadvantages. Importantly, these disadvantages tend to be multidimensional, mutually reinforcing, and cumulative. About theContinue reading “Labour market exits in a former out-of-home care population: A birth cohort-based sequence analysis”

Therese Reitan, Professor of Public Administration at Södertörn University and researcher at the Department of Public Health at Stockholm University has together with Sten-Åke Stenberg, a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, studied register and survey data (including data from military service) on over 3000 men born between 1950 and 1976 and theirContinue reading “Class in the Classroom. A Cohort Study of Leader Role Occupancy Across the Life Course”

A new cohort study by ICON members Baojing Li, Can Liu, Ylva B Almquist and Lisa Berg explores multigenerational associations between grandparental socioeconomic disadvantages and grandchild psychiatric outcomes, emphasizing parental childhood experiences as mediators. The study reveals that factors like family relationships and educational performance influence risk transmission across generations, highlighting their potential protective effects on mental health.

ICON members Viviane S Straatmann, Tanishta Rajesh, Josephine Jackisch, and Ylva B Almquist have established the “Swedish families of the 1990s (SWIFT90)” cohort, following those born in Sweden from 1990 to 1999, their parents, and siblings. This population-based study aims to explore the impact of parental involvement with child welfare services and outcomes of children in out-of-home care. Encompassing over 3.2 million individuals, SWIFT90 utilizes extensive data from national registers between 1960 and 2022 to analyze socioeconomic and health factors.

Viviane S. Straatmann conducted a scoping review revealing the overlooked consequences parents face when their children are placed in out-of-home care (OHC). The review highlights the significant toll on parents, particularly mothers, who experience deterioration in mental health and financial stability after child placement. Further research with longitudinal designs is essential for a better understanding of these associations. Addressing the needs of these parents is crucial for positive family outcomes.