The use of psychiatric services by young adults who came to Sweden as teenage refugees: a national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To investigate the patterns of use of different forms of psychiatric care in refugees who settled in Sweden as teenagers.

Method

Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate the use of different forms of psychiatric care from 2009 to 2012 in a population of 35 457 refugees, aged from 20 to 36, who had settled in Sweden as teenagers between 1989 and 2004. These findings were compared with 1.26 million peers from the same birth cohorts in the general Swedish population.

Results

Unaccompanied and accompanied refugees were more likely to experience compulsory admission to a psychiatric hospital compared with the native Swedish population, with hazard ratios (HRs) of 2.76 (1.86-4.10) and 1.89 (1.53-2.34), respectively, as well as psychiatric inpatient care, w

SUBMITTER: Manhica H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6999002 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature