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Sara Lundqvist

About our researcher Sara Lundqvist

About Sara Lundqvist

Sara Lundqvist is a doctoral candidate with a dissertation titled "Pain and Inflammation in Psychiatric Conditions in Children and Adolescents." Sara is also a chief physician and medical director at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic in Gothenburg. She works regionally with knowledge management within the framework of Regional Health. Sara has participated in the drafting or reference groups for national and regional guidelines for various child psychiatric conditions. She has previously been the chairperson of the specialist medical association "Swedish Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry" and worked nationally on issues related to child and adolescent psychiatry. Sara has published several articles in her field

Research interests

Sara has worked clinically in child and adolescent psychiatry for the past 17 years. Early in her career, she noticed that adolescents with psychiatric conditions also seemed vulnerable to physical illness, inflammation, and pain. This led to her first publication, which was a survey study with children and adolescents who were attending their first visit in child and adolescent psychiatry, where they answered questions about physical illnesses, medication, and pain. Her second publication, a project plan for the ongoing clinical study within the child and adolescent psychiatry assessment unit, focuses on children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In that study, we have just completed data collection and will analyze the survey responses and saliva samples. The third publication was an analysis of data from a national survey, Meshe, where adolescents across Sweden answered questions about psychiatric and somatic issues. The focus of the third article was specifically on ADHD and pain. The fourth article, which also uses the same data, is not yet published and focuses on ADHD and somatic comorbidity.