Filip Arnberg
Programme Director at Department of Medical Sciences; National Centre for Disaster Psychiatry - KcKP
- E-mail:
- filip.arnberg@neuro.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, ing 10
751 85 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, ing 10, våning 1
751 85 Uppsala
Programme Director at National Centre for Disaster Psychiatry
- E-mail:
- Filip.Arnberg@neuro.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, Ing 10, entréplan
751 85 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska Ingång 10, 3tr
751 85 Uppsala
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- Academic merits:
- PhD
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-1317-2093
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Associate professor, lic. clin psyhologist.
Director of the National Centre for Disaster Psychiatry
Activites at the centre are focused on research, development, and dissemination within the field of psychotraumatology. Please read more about us at our webpage.

Publications
Selection of publications
Part of Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
- DOI for Efficacy, Benefits, and Harms of a Self-management App in a Swedish Trauma-Exposed Community Sample (PTSD Coach): Randomized Controlled Trial
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Condensed Internet-delivered prolonged exposure provided soon after trauma: a randomised trial
Part of Psychological Medicine, p. 1-10, 2021
- DOI for Condensed Internet-delivered prolonged exposure provided soon after trauma: a randomised trial
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Part of The BMJ, 2019
- DOI for Stress related disorders and risk of cardiovascular disease: population based, sibling controlled cohort study
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Association of Stress-Related Disorders With Subsequent Autoimmune Disease
Part of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), p. 2388-2400, 2018
Part of The Lancet Psychiatry, p. 817-824, 2015
- DOI for Psychiatric disorders and suicide attempts in Swedish survivors of the 2004 southeast Asia tsunami: a 5 year matched cohort study
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Prevalence and Duration of PTSD in Survivors Six Years After a Natural Disaster
Part of Journal of Anxiety Disorders, p. 347-352, 2013
- DOI for Prevalence and Duration of PTSD in Survivors Six Years After a Natural Disaster
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Recent publications
Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2025
- DOI for Development and pilot-testing of an app to complement trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescents: [Desarrollo y prueba piloto de una App (aplicación) para complementar la terapia cognitivo-conductual focalizada en trauma para adolescentes]
- Download full text (pdf) of Development and pilot-testing of an app to complement trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescents: [Desarrollo y prueba piloto de una App (aplicación) para complementar la terapia cognitivo-conductual focalizada en trauma para adolescentes]
Incidence Trajectories of Psychiatric Disorders After Assault, Injury, and Bereavement
Part of JAMA psychiatry, p. 374-385, 2024
Prevalence of Life Stressors and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Women in Iceland
Part of JAMA Network Open, 2024
- DOI for Prevalence of Life Stressors and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Women in Iceland
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Part of The Lancet Regional Health, 2024
- DOI for Sex differences in clinically diagnosed psychiatric disorders over the lifespan: a nationwide register-based study in Sweden
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Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2024
- DOI for Mediators of change in a condensed online exposure-based intervention provided soon after trauma: insights from a randomised controlled trial
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All publications
Articles in journal
Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2025
- DOI for Development and pilot-testing of an app to complement trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescents: [Desarrollo y prueba piloto de una App (aplicación) para complementar la terapia cognitivo-conductual focalizada en trauma para adolescentes]
- Download full text (pdf) of Development and pilot-testing of an app to complement trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for adolescents: [Desarrollo y prueba piloto de una App (aplicación) para complementar la terapia cognitivo-conductual focalizada en trauma para adolescentes]
Incidence Trajectories of Psychiatric Disorders After Assault, Injury, and Bereavement
Part of JAMA psychiatry, p. 374-385, 2024
Prevalence of Life Stressors and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Women in Iceland
Part of JAMA Network Open, 2024
- DOI for Prevalence of Life Stressors and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Women in Iceland
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Part of The Lancet Regional Health, 2024
- DOI for Sex differences in clinically diagnosed psychiatric disorders over the lifespan: a nationwide register-based study in Sweden
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Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2024
- DOI for Mediators of change in a condensed online exposure-based intervention provided soon after trauma: insights from a randomised controlled trial
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2024
- DOI for Coping strategies and symptoms of Adjustment Disorder among adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) during the Covid-19 pandemic
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The self-help app My Grief: Bereaved parents' experiences of helpfulness, satisfaction and usability
Part of Internet Interventions, 2024
- DOI for The self-help app My Grief: Bereaved parents' experiences of helpfulness, satisfaction and usability
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Surviving COVID-19: patients' experiences of care and path to recovery
Part of International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 2024
- DOI for Surviving COVID-19: patients' experiences of care and path to recovery
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2023
- DOI for Health-related quality of life after surviving intensive care for COVID-19: a prospective multicenter cohort study
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Moral Stress among Swedish Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study
Part of Scandinavian Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, p. 2-2, 2023
Reporting under extreme conditions: journalists' experience of disaster coverage
Part of Frontiers in Communication, 2023
- DOI for Reporting under extreme conditions: journalists' experience of disaster coverage
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Part of BMC Medical Ethics, 2023
- DOI for "Being prevented from providing good care: a conceptual analysis of moral stress among health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic"
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Part of Internet Interventions, p. 100618, 2023
- DOI for Longitudinal follow-up of the randomized controlled trial of access to the trauma-focused self-management app PTSD Coach
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Daily uplifts during the COVID-19 pandemic: what is considered helpful in everyday life?
Part of BMC Public Health, 2022
- DOI for Daily uplifts during the COVID-19 pandemic: what is considered helpful in everyday life?
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Part of Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
- DOI for Media perception and trust among disaster survivors: Tsunami survivors' interaction with journalists, media exposure, and associations with trust in media and authorities
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Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2022
- DOI for Dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe: five lessons from the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
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Part of Conflict and Health, 2022
- DOI for Dealing with difficult choices: a qualitative study of experiences and consequences of moral challenges among disaster healthcare responders
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My Grief App for Prolonged Grief in Bereaved Parents: A Pilot Study
Part of Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
- DOI for My Grief App for Prolonged Grief in Bereaved Parents: A Pilot Study
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Part of Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2022
- DOI for Efficacy, Benefits, and Harms of a Self-management App in a Swedish Trauma-Exposed Community Sample (PTSD Coach): Randomized Controlled Trial
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Lifetime exposure to violence and other life stressors and hair cortisol concentration in women
Part of Stress, p. 48-56, 2022
- DOI for Lifetime exposure to violence and other life stressors and hair cortisol concentration in women
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Part of Epidemiology, 2022
Part of BMJ Open, 2021
- DOI for Mobile App for Prolonged Grief among Bereaved Parents: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2021
- DOI for Prevention of post-traumatic stress disorder: Lessons learned from a terminated RCT of prolonged exposure.
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Condensed internet-delivered prolonged exposure provided soon after trauma: A randomised pilot trial
Part of Internet Interventions, 2021
- DOI for Condensed internet-delivered prolonged exposure provided soon after trauma: A randomised pilot trial
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Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2021
- DOI for Demanding and effective: participants' experiences of internet-delivered prolonged exposure provided within two months after exposure to trauma
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Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2021
- DOI for Ecological momentary assessment of self-rated health, daily strategies and self-management app use among trauma-exposed adults
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Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2021
- DOI for Risk and protective factors, stressors, and symptoms of adjustment disorder during the COVID-19 pandemic – First results of the ESTSS COVID-19 pan-European ADJUST study
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Condensed Internet-delivered prolonged exposure provided soon after trauma: a randomised trial
Part of Psychological Medicine, p. 1-10, 2021
- DOI for Condensed Internet-delivered prolonged exposure provided soon after trauma: a randomised trial
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Part of Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020
- DOI for Psychometric Evaluation of the Swedish Version of the Prolonged Grief Disorder-13 (PG-13) in a Bereaved Mixed Trauma Sample
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Part of PLoS Medicine, 2020
- DOI for Mortality and major disease risk among migrants of the 1991–2001 Balkan wars to Sweden: A register-based cohort study
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Moral Distress among Disaster Responders: What is it?
Part of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, p. 212-219, 2020
- DOI for Moral Distress among Disaster Responders: What is it?
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2020
Part of The BMJ, 2019
- DOI for Stress related disorders and risk of cardiovascular disease: population based, sibling controlled cohort study
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Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2019
- DOI for Validation of a clinician-administered diagnostic measure of ICD-11 PTSD and Complex PTSD: the International Trauma Interview in a Swedish sample
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Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2019
- DOI for PTSD Coach Sweden: A Self-Management App for Trauma-Related Symptoms: A RCT study protocol evaluating a self-help app for posttraumatic stress in a Swedish community sample
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Part of BJPsych Open, p. 1-6, 2019
- DOI for Long-term mental health and social support in victims of disaster: Comparison with a general population sample
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Trajectories of prolonged grief one to six years after a natural disaster
Part of PLOS ONE, 2018
- DOI for Trajectories of prolonged grief one to six years after a natural disaster
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Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2018
- DOI for Similarity in symptom patterns of posttraumatic stress among disaster-survivors: a three-step latent profile analysis
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Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2018
- DOI for A pilot study of user satisfaction and perceived helpfulness of the Swedish version of the mobile app PTSD Coach
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Part of mHealth, 2018
Part of Disaster Prevention and Management, p. 573-585, 2018
- DOI for Survivors’ experiences of journalists and media exposure: A retrospective qualitative study 15 years after a ferry disaster
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Association of Stress-Related Disorders With Subsequent Autoimmune Disease
Part of Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), p. 2388-2400, 2018
Post-traumatic stress disorder and interleukin 6
Part of Lancet psychiatry, p. 200-201, 2016
Self-rated health and interleukin-6: Longitudinal relationships in older adults
Part of Brain, behavior, and immunity, p. 226-232, 2016
Part of Personality and Individual Differences, p. 134-139, 2016
Posttraumatic stress in survivors 1 month to 19 years after an airliner emergency landing
Part of PLOS ONE, 2015
- DOI for Posttraumatic stress in survivors 1 month to 19 years after an airliner emergency landing
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Panel discussion: early interventions after traumatic events
Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2015
- DOI for Panel discussion: early interventions after traumatic events
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Part of Lancet psychiatry, p. 962-963, 2015
Six years after the wave: Trajectories of posttraumatic stress following a natural disaster
Part of Journal of Anxiety Disorders, p. 15-24, 2015
- DOI for Six years after the wave: Trajectories of posttraumatic stress following a natural disaster
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Longitudinal relationship between inflammation and poor self-rated health in elderly
Part of Brain, behavior, and immunity, 2015
Part of The Lancet Psychiatry, p. 817-824, 2015
- DOI for Psychiatric disorders and suicide attempts in Swedish survivors of the 2004 southeast Asia tsunami: a 5 year matched cohort study
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
- DOI for Internet-delivered psychological treatments for mood and anxiety disorders: a systematic review of their efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness
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Properties of Swedish Posttraumatic Stress Measures after a Disaster
Part of Journal of Anxiety Disorders, p. 402-409, 2014
- DOI for Properties of Swedish Posttraumatic Stress Measures after a Disaster
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
- DOI for Can Demographic and Exposure Characteristics Predict Levels of Social Support in Survivors from a Natural Disaster?
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Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, p. 20650, 2013
Posttraumatisk stress: Vad vi bör göra efter allvarliga händelser
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 95-98, 2013
Prevalence and Duration of PTSD in Survivors Six Years After a Natural Disaster
Part of Journal of Anxiety Disorders, p. 347-352, 2013
- DOI for Prevalence and Duration of PTSD in Survivors Six Years After a Natural Disaster
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Felaktigheter i artikel om PTSD
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 164-164, 2013
Svenskarna som överlevde tsunamin mår relativt bra: Uppföljning sex år efter katastrofen 2004
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 1607-1609, 2012
Social support moderates posttraumatic stress and general distress after disaster
Part of Journal of Traumatic Stress, p. 721-727, 2012
Post-disaster psychosocial services across Europe: the TENTS project
Part of Social Science and Medicine, p. 1708-1714, 2012
Impact of physical injury on mental health after the 2004 Southeast Asia tsunami
Part of Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, p. 203-208, 2012
Part of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2011
- DOI for A longitudinal follow-up of posttraumatic stress: from 9 months to 20 years after a major road traffic accident
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Part of Journal of Traumatic Stress, p. 183-190, 2011
The effect of Traumatic Bereavement on Tsunami-Exposed Survivors
Part of Journal of Traumatic Stress, p. 497-504, 2009
Part of Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, p. 316-323, 2009
Part of Läkartidningen, p. 2604-2606, 2009
Articles, review/survey
Part of Journal of Affective Disorders, p. 221-234, 2023
- DOI for Internet-delivered psychological treatment as an add-on to treatment as usual for common mental disorders: A systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized trials
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Part of Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (JCSM), p. 1937-1947, 2018
Trauma and trauma care in Europe
Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2018
- DOI for Trauma and trauma care in Europe
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Part of Contemporary Clinical Trials, p. 1-8, 2014
- DOI for Reporting of harms in randomized controlled trials of psychological interventions for mental and behavioral disorders: A review of current practice
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Part of Journal of Psychosomatic Research, p. 401-408, 2013
- DOI for Recent randomized controlled trials of psychological interventions in healthcare: A review of their quantity, scope, and characteristics
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Books
Studentlitteratur AB, 2018
Chapters in book
Primary prevention and epidemiology of trauma and stress related disorders
Part of The New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, p. 860-868, Oxford University Press, 2020
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
O83 A Feasibility Study of the My Grief App for Prolonged Grief in Bereaved Parents in Sweden
2022
Daily uplifts during the COVID-19 pandemic: What is considered helpful in everyday life?
2021
PTSD Coach Sweden: RCT of a trauma-focused self-management app
Part of Trauma and Mental Health during the Global Pandemic, 2021
2019
Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2019
- DOI for Reliability and validity of the Swedish international trauma interview for posttraumatic stress disorders in the ICD-11
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Disaster Risk Reduction and Health: The Potential of Health Registers for Public Health Monitoring
Part of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2019
A Prospective Study of ICD-11 and DSM-5 PTSD, Functional Disability and Quality of Life
2018
The Relation between Disgust and PTSD Symptom Severity
2018
Hypnotic Medication Use among Swedish Survivors of the 2004 Southeast Asia Tsunami
2018
Psychiatric Reactions to Severe Stress and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
2018
DSM-5 and ICD-11 symptom profiles in a diverse sample of trauma victims
2017
2017
2017
Assessing Prolonged Grief Disorder: Psychometric properties of the Swedish PG-13
2017
Psychometric properties of the Swedish PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5).
2016
2016
Development and Pilot-testing of the Swedish Version of the PTSD Coach
2016
2015
2015
2014
2013
Is Social Support Equally Important for Both Directly and Indirectly Affected Disaster Victims?
Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, p. 72-72, 2011
Prospective longitudinal long-term studies 14-20 years after three disasters
Part of European Journal of Psychotraumatology, p. 72-72, 2011
Twenty years later: a follow-up study after the Måbødalen school-bus accident, August 15th, 1988
2009
2009
2009