Contact with psychiatric care prior to suicide: are there differences between migrants and the majority population in Sweden? A cohort study of 12 474 persons who died by suicide between 2006 and 2016.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The aim of this study was to determine possible differences in psychiatric care contact and the type of contact in the year prior to suicide by migrant status and region of origin compared to Swedish persons.

Methods

A population-based open cohort design, using linked national registers, to study all individuals aged 20-64 years who died by suicide between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2016 in Sweden (N = 12 474). The primary exposure was migrant status compared to the Swedish majority population in the following categories: non-refugee migrants, refugee migrants and children of migrants. The secondary exposure was region of origin in seven regions: Sweden, other Nordic countries, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, the Americas a

SUBMITTER: Jonsson E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9354119 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature