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Marcus Bendtsen

Senior Associate Professor

Digital interventions can help individuals change their behaviours - my research is focused on quantitative estimation of the effects of interventions, including for whom the interventions are most beneficial and how they effect society.

Presentation

I am a senior associate professor in biostatistics in public health. My focus is on the estimation of effects of interventions and its methodological challenges.

My research is centred on digital lifestyle interventions, for instance mobile phone-based interventions that aim to help individuals reduce their alcohol consumption. I primarily aim to investigate the effects of lifestyle interventions through quantitative means: the total effect on a population, the effect on specific individuals, identification of subgroups for whom the interventions have the greatest/least effect, and how interventions effect different mediating psychosocial factors.

Bayesian statistics offer an alternative to the point estimating and dichotomising tradition that is prevalent today. I actively seek to spread knowledge about this alternative through publications and seminars, and through the use of Bayesian statistics in my own research.

I teach at both the medical and technical faculties at Linköping University. At the medical faculty, I am involved in e-health-related courses for master's students and epidemiology for Ph.D. and medical students. At the technical faculty, I am the examiner and course leader for the IT engineers' project course, and I am also part of the planning committee for the IT engineers.

Read more about my research and teaching activities.

Follow me on Twitter: @marcusbendtsen

Publications

2025

John Berghog, Maria Hermanson, Anton Risto, Marcus Bendtsen, Jesper Stromback Eklund, David Unger, Hanna Gustafsson, Martin Hagavall, Kalle Landerholm, Pamela Buchwald, Caroline Nordenvall, Pär Myrelid (2025) Long-term perineal wound healing and re-operation rates after proctectomy in patients with inflammatory bowel disease-A retrospective multicentre study Colorectal Disease, Vol. 27, Article e70227 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Penelope Hasking, Glenn Kiekens, Maria V. Petukhova, Yesica Albor, Ahmad Al-Hadi, Jordi Alonso, Nouf Al-Saud, Yasmin Altwaijri, Claes Andersson, Lukoye Atwoli, Caroline Ayuya Muaka, Patricia Baez-Mansur, Laura Ballester, Jason Bantjes, Harald Baumeister, Marcus Bendtsen, Corina Benjet, Anne Berman, Ronny Bruffaerts, Paula Carrasco, Silver Chan, Irina Cohut, Maria Covarrubias Diaz Couder, Paula Cristobal-Narvaez, Pim Cuijpers, Oana David, Dong Dong, David Ebert, Jorge Gaete, Carlos Garcia Forero, Raul Gutierrez-Garcia, Josep Haro, Xanthe Hunt, Petra Hurks, Mathilde Husky, Florence Jaguga, Leontien Jansen, Ana Jimenez-Perez, Fanny Kahlke, Elisabeth Klinkenberg, Alvaro Langer, Sue Lee, Rodrigo Antunes Lima, Yan Liu, Christine Lochner, Scarlett Mac-Ginty, Vania Martinez, Andre Mason, Margaret McLafferty, Tiana Mori, Elaine Murray, Catherine Musyoka, Caitalin Nedelcea, Daniel Nunez, Siobhan O'Neill, Jose Piqueras, Codruta Popescu, Charlene Rapsey, Kealagh Robinson, Miquel Roca, Tiscar Rodriguez-Jimenez, Elske Salemink, Nancy Sampson, Damian Scarf, Oi-ling Siu, Dan Stein, Sascha Y. Struijs, Cristina Tomoiaga, Karla Valdes-Garcia, Claudia van der Heijde, Daniel Vigo, Wouter Voorspoels, Angel Wang, Samuel Wong, Matthew Nock, Ronald Kessler (2025) The relationships between sporadic and repetitive non-suicidal self-injury and mental disorders among first-year college students: results from the World Mental Health International College Student Initiative Psychological Medicine, Vol. 55, Article e280 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Elizabeth S. Collier, Elin Karlsson, Joel Crawford, Preben Bendtsen, Marcus Bendtsen (2025) Navigating behavioural change: insights from prompts self-authored by individuals during a digital multiple health behaviour intervention trial Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 384, Article 118599 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Joel Crawford, Richard Cooke, Gillian W. Shorter, Marcus Bendtsen (2025) Personal perceptions of risky drinking and alcohol guidelines - a qualitative analysis BMC Public Health, Vol. 25, Article 3049 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Katarina Åsberg, Marie Löf, Marcus Bendtsen (2025) Setting Goals and Accepting Challenges for Behavior Change-Analysis of Participants' Interactions With a Digital Multiple Health Behavior Intervention: Mixed Methods Study JMIR Human Factors, Vol. 12, Article e66208 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

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