2025
Bardal, I., Aars, N.A.P., Sanatkar, S., Stevelink, S.A.M., Brandseth, O. L., Brinchmann, B. & Mykletun, A. (2025). Is the association between graded sickness absence and return to work confounded by health? A longitudinal cohort study from the Norwegian neck and back registry. BMC Public Health 25, 1202 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22368-1
Aars, N. A., Bardal, I., Brinchmann, B., & Mykletun, A. (2025). Naturalistic trial of nudging patients and clinicians in the Norwegian sickness absence clinics: a study protocol for the NSAC Nudge Study. BMJ open, 15(3), e089758. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-089758
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Healey, A., Patel, A., Marks, J., Bremner, S., Foster, R., Gibson, S. L., Goldsmith, L. P., Lucock, M., Repper, J., Rinaldi, M., Simpson, A., White, S., Ussher, M, & Gillard, S. (2025). Peer support for discharge from hospital to community mental healthcare: a cost analysis. General Psychiatry, 38(1), e101671. https://doi.org/10.1136/gpsych-2024-101671
2024
Borowska, M. A., Ørjasæter, K. B., Borg, M., Stenvall, B., Silbermann, A., Rinaldi, M., Killackey, E., Mykletun, A., & Moe, C. (2024). “Without IPS I Think I Would Really Fall Apart”: Individual Placement and Support as Experienced by People With Mental Illness—Phenomenological Peer Research Study. Qualitative Health Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323241275046
Gillard, S., Foster, R., White, S., Bhattacharya, R., Binfield, P., Eborall, R., Gibson, S. L., Harnett, D., Simpson, A., Lucock, M., Marks, J., Repper, J., Rinaldi, M., Salla, A., & Worner, J. (2024). Implementing peer support into practice in mental health services: a qualitative comparative case study. BMC health services research, 24(1), 1050. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-11447-5
Rinaldi, M., Perkins, R., Baxter, R., Dorrington, P., & Saville, K. (2024). Individual placement and support (IPS): duration of employment support and equity of access and outcome in routine clinical practice. BJPsych Bulletin, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjb.2024.68
Brinchmann, B., Wittlund, S., Lorentzen, T., Moe, C., McDaid, D., Killackey, E., Rinaldi, M., & Mykletun, A. (2024). The societal impact of individual placement and support implementation on employment outcomes for young adults receiving temporary health-related welfare benefits: a difference-in-differences study. Psychological medicine, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723003744
Butenko, D., Rinaldi, M., Moe, C., Brinchmann, B., Wittlund, S., Killackey, E., Borg, M. & Mykletun, A. (2024). “What I thought was the dream job was a little different than I had expected”: A qualitative study exploring the turnover of IPS employment specialists. Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 61(1), 79-91. https://doi.org/10.3233/JVR-240027
Hoff, E. H., Kraft, K. B., Moe, C. F., Nylenna, M., Østby, K. A., & Mykletun, A. (2024). The cost of saying no: general practitioners' gatekeeping role in sickness absence certification. BMC public health, 24(1), Artikkel 439. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-17993-1
Hofstad, T., Nyttingnes, O., Markussen, S., Johnsen, E., Killackey, E., McDaid, D., Rinaldi, M., Dean, K., Brinchmann, B., Douglas, K., Gröning, L., Bjørkly, S., Palmstierna, T., Strømme, M. F., Blindheim, A., Rugkåsa, J., Hofmann, B. M., Pedersen, R., Widding- Havneraas, T., … Mykletun, A. (2024). Long term outcomes and causal modelling of compulsory inpatient and outpatient mental health care using Norwegian registry data: Protocol for a controversies in psychiatry research project. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, e1980. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1980
Kraft, K. B., Hoff, E. H., Nylenna, M., Moe, C. F., Mykletun, M. & Østby, K. (2024). Time is money: general practitioners’ reflections on the fee-for-service system. BMC Health Services Research, 24(1), Artikkel 472. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-024-10968-3
Lyhmann, I., Widding-Havneraas, T., Bjelland, I., Markussen, S., Elwert, F., Chaulagain, A., Mykletun, A. & Halmøy, A. (2024). Effect of pharmacological treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder on later psychiatric comorbidity: a population-based prospective long-term study. BMJ Mental Health, 27(1), e301003. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2024-301003
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2023
Butenko, D., Rinaldi, M., Brinchmann, B., Brandseth, O. L., Killackey, E., & Mykletun, A. (2023). The personality profile of IPS employment specialists, and how it relates to job satisfaction: A longitudinal cohort study. Scandinavian journal of psychology, 64(1), 71–79. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12864
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2022
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2017
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