Educational attainment of adolescents treated in psychiatric inpatient care: a register study over 3 decades.

ABSTRACT: Mental disorders may for various reasons impair educational attainment, and with far-reaching consequences given the impact of education on subsequent employment, social life, life choices and even health and mortality. This register-based study addresses trends in educational attainment among Finnish adolescents aged 13-17 with mental disorders severe enough to necessitate inpatient treatment between 1980 and 2010. Our subjects (N = 14,435), followed up until the end of 2014, were at greater risk of discontinuing education beyond compulsory comprehensive school or of lower educational attainment than their age-peers in general population. Only 50.0% had completed any post-comprehensive education compared to 84.9% in same-aged general population. Those at highest risk were males and those

SUBMITTER: Holttinen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10576713 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature