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Elisabeth Björk Brämberg
Researcher
School of Public Health and Community MedicineAbout Elisabeth Björk Brämberg
I'm docent/associate professor in occupational medicine, and currently hold a researcher position at the school of public health and community medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy.
2008 PhD in caring science.
The overall objective for my research is to contribute to the development and evaluation of evidence based methods in the field of prevention of sickness absence and rehabilitation of persons on sick leave due to common mental disorders and back/neck pain, i.e. the two main areas dominating registered sickness absence. In addition, I've broad knowledge in qualitative methods, in identifying ethical issues that might arise when using new interventions within health care settings and systematic reviews.
I'm the PI of the project Effects on sick leave of a problem-solving intervention involving employees at risk of developing common mental disorders and their managers (PRIME). We will test a workplace intervention targeting first line managers. The aims are to 1) evaluate the problem solving intervention’s effect on sickness absence among employees at high-risk for future sickness absence due to common mental disorders; 2) evaluate whether and to what extent it was possible to adhere to the intervention’s protocol, the relationship between the intervention’s key elements and the effect outcome, and to identify the facilitators and barriers to the intervention among supervisors and employees, 3) explore the supervisor’s organizational resources and the employee’s working/private life-balance and the impact on the effect outcome. The study will be conducted as a randomized controlled trial in private sector companies. Funded by AFA Insurance. The project starts during the autumn 2020 and runs until end of 2023.
I’m the PI of the project A problem solving based intervention as an intervention in primary health care for facilitating return-to-work among people suffering from common mental disorders – a cluster-randomized trial (PROSA). Problem solving therapy involving the workplace is an evidence-based intervention with promising effects on return-to-work among persons with common mental disorders. A key element is cooperation between the person on sick leave, his/her employer and health care professionals. The aim is to evaluate the effects of problem solving therapy in the Swedish primary health care system in an employed population on sick leave due to common mental disorders. In addition, we will conduct a systematic identification of ethical aspects from the perspectives of different stakeholders concerning a work-focused problem solving intervention and economic evaluation of a work-focused problem solving intervention, compared to care as usual.
The project is conducted by a multidisciplinary research group with researchers from Karolinska Institutet, University of Gothenburg, University of Linköping and University of Groeningen, the Netherlands.
I’m the project leader for Facilitators and barriers to coordination of return to work, and ethical issues which raises from such coordination among employees on sick leave due to common mental disorders. Qualitative design. A multidisciplinary research group with researchers from Karolinska Institutet, university of Uppsala and University of Linköping conduct the project, with funding from AFA Insurance.
Together with researchers at the unit, I’ve performed evaluations of the national rehabilitation guarantee. In these, we have explored the effects of the guarantee on sick leave, how the guarantee has been implemented nationwide in Sweden and to what extent workplace interventions are implemented and used.
Education
1998 Reg Nurse
2001 Postgraduate diploma in specialist nursing, district nursing
2008 PhD in Caring Science
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Providing a new transdiagnostic emotion-focused pain treatment in a clinical context: therapists' experiences of facilitators and
barriers
Karin Lofstrand, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Ida Flink, Matilda Wurm, Sofia Bergbom
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY - 2024 -
Return to Work Trajectories of Swedish Employees on Sick-Leave Due to Common Mental
Disorders
Anna Toropova, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Gunnar Bergstrom
JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL REHABILITATION - 2024 -
Effects of work-directed interventions on return-to-work in people on sick-leave for to common mental disorders-a systematic
review
Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Elizabeth Ahsberg, Gunilla Fahlstrom, Elisabet Furberg, Carl Gornitzki, Anna Ringborg, Peter Skogman Thoursie
INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH - 2024 -
Ethical challenges from a problem-solving intervention with workplace involvement: a qualitative study among employees with common mental disorders, first-line managers, and rehabilitation
coordinators
Ida Karlsson, Lars Sandman, Iben Axén, Lydia Kwak, Elisabet Sernbo, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - 2024 -
Navigating work and life- a qualitative exploration of managers' and employees' views of return-to-work after sick leave due to common mental
disorders
Lisa Holmlund, Helena Tinnerholm Ljungberg, Ute Bueltmann, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg
BMC PUBLIC HEALTH - 2024 -
Experiences of participating in a problem-solving intervention with workplace involvement in Swedish primary health care: a qualitative study from rehabilitation coordinator's, employee's, and manager's
perspectives
Ida Karlsson, Lydia Kwak, Iben Axén, Gunnar Bergström, Ute Bültmann, Kristina Holmgren, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg
BMC Public Health - 2023 -
Coordination of return-to-work for employees on sick leave due to common mental disorders: facilitators and
barriers
L. Holmlund, T. Hellman, M. Engblom, L. Kwak, L. Sandman, L. Tornkvist, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg
Disability and Rehabilitation - 2022 -
Exploring ethical issues arising from a problem-solving intervention in the Swedish Primary
Care
Ida Karlsson, Lars Sandman, I Axén, Gunnar Bergström, L Kwak, Elisabet Sernbo, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg
European Journal of Public Health Vol.32 Issue Supplement 3 - 2022 -
Conducting In-Depth Interviews via Mobile Phone with Persons with Common Mental Disorders and Multimorbidity: The Challenges and Advantages as Experienced by Participants and
Researchers
Azadé Azad, Elisabet Sernbo, Veronica Svärd, Lisa Holmlund, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - 2021 -
Interventions for common mental disorders in the occupational health service: a systematic review with a narrative
synthesis
I. Axen, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, M. Vaez, A. Lundin, G. Bergstrom
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health - 2020 -
Implementation of care managers for patients with depression: A cross-sectional study in Swedish primary
care
Pia Augustsson, Anna Holst, Irene Svenningsson, Eva-Lisa Petersson, Cecilia Björkelund, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg
BMJ Open - 2020 -
Promoting Evidence-Based Practice for Improved Occupational Safety and Health at Workplaces in Sweden. Report on a Practice-Based Research Network
Approach
I. B. Jensen, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, C. Wahlin, C. Bjorklund, U. Hermansson, M. L. Karlson, L. S. Elinder, P. M. af Rosenschold, T. Nevala, N. Carter, B. Mellblom, L. Kwak
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - 2020 -
Moving From Knowledge to Action in Partnership:
A Case Study on Program Adaptation to Support Optimal Aging in the Context of
Migration
Emmelie Barenfeld, Lars Wallin, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg
Journal of Applied Gerontology - 2019 -
Increasing return-to-work among people on sick leave due to common mental disorders: design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial of a problem-solving intervention versus care-as-usual conducted in the Swedish primary health care system
(PROSA)
Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Kristina Holmgren, U. Bultmann, Hanna Gyllensten, J. Hagberg, L. Sandman, G. Bergstrom
BMC Public Health - 2018 -
Access to primary and specialized somatic health care for persons with severe mental illness: a qualitative study of perceived barriers and facilitators in Swedish health
care
Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Jarl S Torgerson, Anna Norman Kjellström, P. Welin, Marie Rusner
BMC Family Practice - 2018 -
The meaning of learning to live with medically unexplained symptoms as narrated by patients in primary care: A phenomenological-hermeneutic
study
Eva Lidén, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Staffan Svensson
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - 2015 -
Tensions during a process of change - implementation of the Bologna educational reform in Swedish specialist nursing
programmes
Linda Berg, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Eric Carlström, Joakim Öhlén
Journal of Nursing Education and Practice - 2014 -
Academic learning for specialist nurses: A grounded theory
study.
Lena German Millberg, Linda Berg, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Gun Nordström, Joakim Öhlén
Nurse education in practice - 2014 -
Communication through in-person interpreters: a qualitative study of home care providers’ and social workers’
views
Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Lars Sandman
Journal of Clinical Nursing - 2013 -
Interpreters in Cross-Cultural Interviews: A Three-Way Coconstruction of
Data
Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, K. Dahlberg
Qualitative Health Research - 2013 -
Lack of individualized perspective: A qualitative study of diabetes care for immigrants in
Sweden
Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Elisabeth Dahlborg Lyckhage, Sylvia Määttä
Nursing & Health Sciences - 2012 -
Students' learning as the focus for shared involvement between universities and clinical practice: a didactic model for postgraduate degree
projects.
Joakim Öhlén, Linda Berg, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Åsa Engström, Lena German Millberg, Ingela Höglund, Catrine Jacobsson, Margret Lepp, Eva Lidén, Irma Lindström, Kerstin Petzäll, Siv Söderberg, Helle Wijk
Advances in health sciences education - 2012 -
Contextualisation of functional symptoms in primary health
care
Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Eva Lidén, Staffan Svensson, Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Sylvia Määttä
The 5th GENEVA Conference on Person-Centered Medicine. Geneva, Switzerland. - 2012 -
To Be an Immigrant and a Patient in Sweden – A Study With an Individualized
Perspective.
Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Maria Nyström
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - 2010 -
Patient Participation. A Qualitative Study on Immigrant Women and Their
Experiences.
Elisabeth Björk Brämberg, Maria Nyström, Karin Dahlberg
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - 2010 -
Att vara invandrare och patient i Sverige. Ett individorienterat
perspektiv.