Increased risk of suicidal behaviour in non-European international adoptees decreases with age - A Swedish national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-European international adoptees in Sweden were shown to have a three-to fourfold higher risk of suicidal behaviour in youth during 1986-1995 compared with the general population. The aim of this study was to investigate whether this high risk persists beyond youth and in later cohorts.

Methods

A register study of Swedish national cohorts born 1972-86 including 20 625 non-European international adoptees, and comparison populations of 10 915 non-European immigrants and 1 435 167 Swedish born was performed. The study population was followed from age 18 between 1991 and 2016, with suicide and hospital admissions due to suicide attempt as outcomes. Poisson regression models of person time in the study, adjusted for gender and household income at age 17, were fitted

SUBMITTER: Hjern A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7710634 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature