Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Pia Svedberg - Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Jurgita Narusyte - Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Description
Several studies have been conducted, others are in progress. The project are collaborating with researchers in Helsinki and Olso where similar work on disability pension is carried out. A network including also Denmark and Norway was established during 2012 (NorTwinDiSA), focusing on sickness absence research using Nordic twin settings.
Purpose:
The overall objective of the STODS (Swedish Twin project of Disability pension and Sickness absence) is to investigate the importance of genetic and environmental/psychosocial factors for sickness absence and for disability pension in a nationwide, population-based twin sample.
Research principal
Responsible department/unit
Department of Clinical Neuroscience
Data contains personal data
Yes
Unit of analysis
Population
Twins born in Sweden 1925-1990
Time Method
Time period(s) investigated
2008 – ongoing
Research area
HEALTH
(CESSDA Topic Classification)
Medical and Health Sciences, Health Sciences, Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
(The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Keywords
mental health, mental disorders, risk factors, workload, environment, environmental exposure, sick leave, morbidity, stress, psychological, heredity, working conditions, twins, twins, dizygotic, twins, monozygotic, mental diagnoses, rewhard, disability pension, national register, muskuloskeletal system
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