Association of neighbourhood migrant density and risk of non-affective psychosis: a national, longitudinal cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Elevated risk of psychotic disorders in migrant groups is a public mental health priority. We investigated whether living in areas of high own-region migrant density was associated with reduced risk of psychotic disorders among migrants and their children, and whether generation status, probable visible minority status, or region-of-origin affected this relationship.

Methods

We used the Swedish registers to identify migrants and their children born between Jan 1, 1982, and Dec 31, 1996, and living in Sweden on or after their 15th birthday. We tracked all included participants from age 15 years or date of migration until emigration, death, or study end (Dec 31, 2016). The outcome was an ICD-10 diagnosis of non-affective psychosis (F20-29). We calculated own-region

SUBMITTER: Dykxhoorn J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7083220 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature