Natalie Durbeej
Researcher at Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences; Social Medicine/CHAP
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 66 27
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 469 74 99
- E-mail:
- natalie.durbeej@pubcare.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Husargatan 3, Uppsala
- Postal address:
- Box 564
751 22 Uppsala
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Short presentation
I am an associate professor in public health sciences and work as a researcher in CHAP. Current research projects focus on evaluation of preventive interventions, assessment of early mental health problems and exploring long-term outcomes of mental health problems in children and youth. I teach at the medical program and the master program in public health sciences. I also supervise PhD students and is a member of the CHAP research group leadership team.
Keywords
- child and adolescent mental health
- community-based interventions
- criminal behaviour
- preschool
- register-based studies
- socioeconomic disadvantage
Biography
My background is in Psychology (MSc, Stockholm University PhD, Karolinska Institute). Prior to joining the Child Health and Parenting (CHAP) research group, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm Prevents Alcohol and Drug Problems at the Centre for Psychiatric Research unit at the Karolinska Institute/Stockholm Region.
Research
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Aktuella forskningsprojekt:
Långsiktiga konsekvenser av psykisk ohälsa och socioekonomisk utsatthet bland förskolebarn
Publications
Recent publications
- Can extended health communication improve newly settled refugees’ health literacy? A quasi-experimental study from Sweden (2024)
- Mental health status according to the dual-factor model in Swedish adolescents (2024)
- Family and child health centre characteristics associated with exposure to universal language and literacy promotion (2023)
- Increased incidence of overweight and obesity among preschool Swedish children during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
- Associations between social factors and school belonging among newcomer and non-newcomer youth in Sweden (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Can extended health communication improve newly settled refugees’ health literacy? A quasi-experimental study from Sweden (2024)
- Mental health status according to the dual-factor model in Swedish adolescents (2024)
- Family and child health centre characteristics associated with exposure to universal language and literacy promotion (2023)
- Increased incidence of overweight and obesity among preschool Swedish children during the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
- Associations between social factors and school belonging among newcomer and non-newcomer youth in Sweden (2023)
- Predisposing, need and enabling factors for service utilization amongst newly arrived youth in Sweden (2023)
- Young male athletes at risk for problem gambling (2023)
- Parental sociodemographic characteristics and mental health referrals by nurses in Swedish child health centres (2022)
- ‘Feeling down one evening doesn't count as having mental health problems’ (2022)
- Feeling mentally unwell is the "new normal" (2022)
- Experience of discrimination during COVID-19 pandemic (2022)
- Schools' and teachers' roles and challenges in supporting the mental wellbeing of refugee youths (2022)
- Mental Health of Refugee and Non-refugee Migrant Young People in European Secondary Education (2022)
- Migrant Students’ Sense of Belonging and the Covid‐19 Pandemic (2022)
- Social Determinants of the Mental Health of Young Migrants (2022)
- Evaluation of a school-based intervention to promote mental health of refugee youth in Sweden (The RefugeesWellSchool Trial) (2021)
- Asthma and allergies correlate to mental health problems in preschool children (2021)
- Infant-Toddler Checklist identifies 18-month-old children with communication difficulties in the Swedish child healthcare setting (2021)
- The Quantified Behavioral Test Failed to Differentiate ADHD in Adolescents With Neurodevelopmental Problems (2021)
- Interpersonal trauma and its relation to childhood psychopathic traits (2021)
- Inattention and hyperactivity symptoms in childhood predict physical activity in adolescence (2021)
- Patient-controlled admissions to inpatient care (2021)
- Mental Health of Refugees and Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2021)
- Evaluation of the Teaching Recovery Techniques community-based intervention for unaccompanied refugee youth experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms (Swedish UnaccomPanied yOuth Refugee Trial; SUPpORT) (2020)
- Gambling and gambling problem among elite athletes and their professional coaches (2020)
- Evaluation of the teaching recovery techniques community-based intervention for accompanied refugee children experiencing post-traumatic stress symptoms (Accompanied refugeeS In Sweden Trial; ASsIST) (2020)
- Outside the norm (2019)
- Trends in childhood and adolescent internalizing symptoms (2019)
- Is the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire with a Trauma Supplement a Valuable Tool in Screening Refugee Children for Mental Health Problems? (2019)
- Characteristics associated with parent’s exposure of a universal intervention to prevent language and literacy difficulties.
