Cross-cultural training program on mental health care for refugees - a mixed method evaluation.

Background: Refugees tend to have a higher risk of mental ill-health and use mental health services less than the native-born population during their first 10 years in Sweden. Intercultural interactions between refugees and mental health professionals have been described as challenging. Cross-cultural training is proposed as one way to improve care for refugees.

Patients' and clinicians' experiences of the DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview: A mixed method study in a Swedish outpatient setting.

This study is an evaluation of clinicians' and patients' experiences of the core Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in DSM-5. The CFI provides a framework for gathering culturally relevant information, but its final form has not been sufficiently evaluated. Aims were to assess the Clinical Utility (CU), Feasibility (F) and Acceptability (A) of the CFI for clinicians and patients, and to explore clinicians' experiences of using the CFI in a multicultural clinical setting in Sweden.

Swedish doctors choice of medical speciality and associations with cultural capital and perceived status: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Many western countries have problems recruiting and retaining medical specialists. In Sweden there is a lack of primary care doctors and psychiatrists. Despite much research on the topic the shortage remains.

Association between personality traits and future choice of specialisation among Swedish doctors: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Medical students' choice of their future specialty is influenced by several factors, including working conditions and type of patient relations. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the choice of specialty and personality traits.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional questionnaire-based study of 399 alumni from Karolinska Institutet Medical School who were assumed to undergo specialty training at the time of the survey in 2013.

Killing the mother of one's child: psychiatric risk factors among male perpetrators and offspring health consequences.

Objective: To study possible psychiatric and criminological risk factors of intimate partner femicide (IPF) as well as the bereaved offspring's psychiatric morbidity and premature death.

Method: We conducted a nested case-control study, based on Swedish national registries, including all perpetrators of IPF. We computed risk estimates relative to matched population controls, which were compared to those of non-IPF homicide offenders.

Approaching the vulnerability of refugees: evaluation of cross-cultural psychiatric training of staff in mental health care and refugee reception in Sweden.

Background: This study evaluates the outcomes of cross-cultural mental health training given to professionals in health care and refugee reception in Stockholm, Sweden.

Methods: A mixed method approach, with quantitative data from questionnaires (n = 232) and ten qualitative focus group interviews, was used.

Results: After training, the participants reported that the hindering effect of lack of knowledge on their work decreased significantly from 2.

Unnatural deaths in a national cohort of people diagnosed with diabetes.

Objective: To examine risk of unnatural death among people diagnosed with diabetes irrespective of disease type.

Research Design And Methods: We conducted a matched cohort study of the entire Swedish population using interlinked national registers. From the National Diabetes Register we identified 252,191 people diagnosed with diabetes (type 1 or 2) during 1996-2009.

Comparison of communication skills between medical students admitted after interviews or on academic merits.

Background: Selection of the best medical students among applicants is debated and many different methods are used. Academic merits predict good academic performance, but students admitted by other pathways need not be less successful. The aim of this study, was to compare communication skills between students admitted to medical school through interviews or on academic merits, respectively.

Mental distress, alcohol use and help-seeking among medical and business students: a cross-sectional comparative study.

Background: Stress and distress among medical students are thoroughly studied and presumed to be particularly high, but comparative studies including other student groups are rare.

Methods: A web-based survey was distributed to 500 medical students and 500 business students. We compared levels of study stress (HESI), burnout (OLBI), alcohol habits (AUDIT) and depression (MDI), and analysed their relationship with self-assessed mental health problems by logistic regression, with respect to gender.

Factors at medical school and work related to exhaustion among physicians in their first postgraduate year.

Background: Burnout and stress is frequently reported in young physicians but longitudinal studies are sparse. Exhaustion is a core facet of burnout.

Aims: To study individual and environmental medical school predictors and associated working conditions of postgraduate exhaustion, with a reference to gender.