Long term mental health outcomes of Finnish children evacuated to Swedish families during the second world war and their non-evacuated siblings: cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare the risks of admission to hospital for any type of psychiatric disorder and for four specific psychiatric disorders among adults who as children were evacuated to Swedish foster families during the second world war and their non-evacuated siblings, and to evaluate whether these risks differ between the sexes.

Design

Cohort study.

Setting

National child evacuation scheme in Finland during the second world war.

Participants

Children born in Finland between 1933 and 1944 who were later included in a 10% sample of the 1950 Finnish census ascertained in 1997 (n = 45,463; women: n = 22,021; men: n = 23,442). Evacuees in the sample were identified from war time government records.

Main outcome measure

Adults admitted to hospital for psychi

SUBMITTER: Santavirta T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4283996 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature