Associations between children's diagnosed mental disorders and educational achievements in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To examine associations between multiple clinically diagnosed mental disorders among children in Sweden and educational achievements at the end of ninth grade.

Methods

Data from Swedish administrative registers were utilised. Diagnoses of specific mental disorders (unipolar depression, mood, anxiety, obsessive compulsive, eating, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) were used as exposure variables. Educational achievements were assessed in terms of teacher-assigned school grades and eligibility for upper secondary education. The sample comprised 266,664 individuals (49% females) born in 2000 to 2002 who were alive and resident in Sweden in 2017. Exposed and unexposed individuals were compared in terms of outcome variables by fitting linear and logistic regression m

SUBMITTER: Bortes C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9720461 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature