Publications by authors named "Anna-Karin Danielsson"

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  • The study analyzed the impact of alcohol control policies on health outcomes related to alcohol in Nordic countries from 1990 to 2019.
  • More restrictive alcohol policies were generally linked to lower levels of alcohol-attributed harm, especially in Sweden and Norway, while Denmark, with the least restrictive policies, had higher harm levels.
  • Findings suggest that while stricter policies can reduce alcohol-related disease burdens, other factors like sex and specific locations also play crucial roles, indicating that policy effectiveness is context-dependent.
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Background: Exposure to parental substance use problems has been associated with offsprings poor health and adverse social outcomes. In this study, we examined the association between exposure to parental substance use disorder (SUD) during childhood, and adolescence and offspring psychiatric conditions in young adulthood.

Method: This was a register-based cohort study comprising 562,095 males and 531,130 females born between 1981 and 1990 in Sweden.

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Background: Alcohol-attributable medical disorders are prevalent among individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD). However, there is a lack of research on prescriptions of pharmacological treatment for AUD in those with comorbid conditions. This study aims to investigate the utilization of pharmacological treatment (acamprosate, disulfiram and naltrexone) in specialist care among patients with AUD and comorbid medical diagnoses.

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Background: Hazardous alcohol use is a leading risk factor for disability and death, yet observational studies have also reported reduced cardiovascular disease mortality among regular, low-level drinkers. Such findings are refuted by more recent research, yet have received significant media coverage. We aimed to explore: (1) how patients with cardiovascular diseases access health information about moderate drinking and cardiovascular health; (2) the perceived messages these sources convey, and (3) associations with own level of alcohol use.

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Aims: This study aimed to identify barriers and facilitators to implementing alcohol screening and brief interventions (SBI) in cardiology services.

Methods And Results: This was a qualitative study. Individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 clinical cardiology staff (doctors, nurses, and assistant nurses) of varying experience levels and from various clinical settings (high-dependency unit, ward, and outpatient clinic), in three regions of Sweden.

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Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine the prevalence of indications of alcohol or drug use disorders in five different national Swedish registers and to investigate the correlation between these registers. Furthermore, the intent is to investigate whether combining data from different registers increases the prevalence of these indications in the population due to the identification of different demographic groups in different registers.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

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Background: Substance use problems have been associated with poor labour market outcomes. This study investigated whether substance use disorders (SUD) in emerging adulthood increase the likelihood of later being not in employment, education or training (NEET).

Methods: A national cohort study of 23 5295 males and 227 792 females born between 1981 and 1987.

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Objective: To investigate the associations between low education and risk of mental disorders, substance use disorders and self-harm in different age-groups.

Methods: All subjects in Stockholm born between 1931 and 1990 were linked to their own or their parent's highest education in 2000 and followed-up for these disorders in health care registers 2001-2016. Subjects were stratified into four age-groups: 10-18, 19-27, 28-50, and 51-70 years.

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Background And Aim: Cannabis use disorder (CUD) is one of the main reasons for seeking substance treatment in the Nordic countries, but there are few studies on readmission to care. We aimed to characterize CUD readmission and estimate the magnitude of how socio-economic factors and psychiatric comorbidity influence the risk of CUD readmission.

Design, Setting And Participants: This was a nation-wide cohort study carried out between 2001 and 2016 in Sweden.

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  • Cannabis use disorder (CUD) is when people have problems because of using cannabis, and it's a major reason people seek help.
  • A study in Sweden looked at over 3 million people from 1970 to 2000 to understand more about CUD and its connection to other issues.
  • They found that more people are getting CUD diagnoses over time, especially younger ones, and many of them also have other mental health issues.
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Background: Poverty in adolescence is associated with later drug use. Few studies have evaluated the role of adolescent psychiatric disorders in this association.

Aims: This study aimed to investigate mediation and interaction simultaneously, enabling the disentanglement of the role of adolescent psychiatric disorders in the association between poverty in adolescent and later drug use disorders.

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Background: Few studies have assessed how children are affected by parental alcohol consumption without clinically diagnosed alcohol problems, especially in relation to more long-term and severe consequences. The aim is to investigate how fathers' alcohol use is related to the risk for substance-related disorders in offspring.

Method: A prospective cohort study of 64 710 Swedish citizens whose fathers were conscripted for compulsory military training at ages 18-20 in 1969/70.

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Background: Being not in education, employment, or training (NEET) has been associated with poor health outcomes. This study aimed to investigate the association between NEET during emerging adulthood and later drug use disorder (DUD) among males and females.

Method: A national cohort comprising 383,116 Swedish males and 362,002 females born between 1984 and 1990.

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Aims: To test the hypothesis that exposure to parental substance use disorder is associated with an increased risk of being not in education, employment or training (NEET) in male and female offspring during young adulthood.

Design, Setting And Participants: A register-based, national cohort study of 797 376 individuals born between 1984 and 1990, residing in Sweden at age 17 years. Participants were followed from age 17 years to maximum age 32 years and assessed annually for being NEET.

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Background: Pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorders (AUD) is effective. However, knowledge about utilization of, and patient characteristics associated with prescriptions is scarce. The aim is to investigate prescriptions of pharmacotherapy for AUD in Sweden across time, sociodemographics, domicile and comorbid conditions.

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Introduction And Aims: The gender difference in alcohol use seems to have narrowed in the Nordic countries, but it is not clear to what extent this may have affected differences in levels of harm. We compared gender differences in all-cause and cause-specific alcohol-attributed disease burden, as measured by disability-adjusted life-years (DALY), in four Nordic countries in 2000-2017, to find out if gender gaps in DALYs had narrowed.

Design And Methods: Alcohol-attributed disease burden by DALYs per 100 000 population with 95% uncertainty intervals were extracted from the Global Burden of Disease database.

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Aims: To examine whether poverty exposure in childhood/adolescence increases the risk of later drug use disorder and drug crime conviction.

Design, Setting And Participants: A national cohort study encompassing 634 284 individuals born between 1985 and 1990, residing in Sweden between 5 and 18 years of age, followed-up from January 2004 to December 2016, starting from the age of 19 years until the first visit to inpatient/outpatient care with a diagnosis of a drug use disorder or a drug crime offence.

Measurements: The exposure variable was 'trajectories of poverty' based on household income, assessed through group-based trajectory analysis.

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Background: The associations between cannabis use and anxiety or depression remain unclear. If cannabis affects these conditions, it is of interest to examine possible changes in cannabis use over time, in relation to anxiety and depression, as cannabis potency has increased in recent decades.

Methods: Cohorts from the Women and Alcohol in Gothenburg study (n = 1 100), from three time periods were used to examine associations over time between cannabis use and anxiety and depression.

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  • The study investigates the relationship between childhood socioeconomic status (SES) and cannabis use among adolescents in Sweden, noting inconsistencies in previous research.
  • Using data from over 9,000 11th graders, researchers found that students with at least one parent with a university education had a higher likelihood of trying cannabis but were less frequent users compared to those with no college education.
  • The findings suggest that while lower SES families may have adolescents who are less likely to experiment with cannabis, those who do may use it more frequently, indicating a complex relationship between SES and cannabis use.
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Aims: To examine the association between cannabis use and subsequent other illicit drug use and drug use disorders (harmful use and dependence).

Design, Setting, Participants: We used survey data from a population-based cohort in Stockholm County (collected 1998-2000), with linkage to the National Patient Register. The study base comprised participants aged 20-64 years (N = 10 345), followed-up until 2014.

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Objectives: To coherently examine the responsiveness of the Swedish National Tobacco Quitline (SNTQ) to different types of anti-smoking policies over an extended period of calendar time.

Design: Quasi-experimental design with an intervention time-series analysis based on 19 years series of data collected between January 1999 and August 2017 (224 months). Statistical inference on calling rates and rate ratios was obtained using intervention time-series models (Poisson regression and transfer functions).

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Objective: To investigate to what extent being outside education, employment or training after completed secondary education in Sweden might affect the risk of subsequent alcohol use disorders (AUDs), with sociodemographic indicators, such as sex, domicile and origin, taken into account.

Design: Population register-based cohort study with 485 839 Swedish youths.

Setting: Sweden.

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Objective: Screening and brief intervention in primary care for hazardous alcohol use is potentially a means to improve public health but is seldom implemented. There are few comparisons with general practitioner screening for other lifestyle habits.

Method: Repeated cross-sectional surveys from 2004, 2008, and 2012 in Sweden were used (N = 28,935) to document general practitioner visitors' reports on being asked and advised about alcohol, tobacco, diet, and physical activity when visiting primary care.

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Background: A primary concern within the healthcare system is to make treatment more accessible as well as attractive for the great majority of alcohol-dependent people who feel reluctant to participate in the treatment programs available. This paper presents the protocol for a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to test the efficacy of two different technical devices (mobile phone application and breathalyzer) on alcohol consumption.

Methods: The study is a three-armed RCT with follow-ups 3 and 6 months after randomization.

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