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Overrepresentation of unaccompanied refugee minors in inpatient psychiatric care.
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- Risk factors for common mental disorders in young refugees from Iran, Somalia and Syria to Sweden.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2023Article
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- Multimodal co-therapy for unaccompanied minors: a qualitative study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2022Article
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- Survivors of Hell: Resilience Amongst Unaccompanied Minor Refugees and Implications for Treatment- a Narrative Review.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2021Article
- Psychiatric Emergency in Children and Adolescents: A Retrospective Study in Parma Local Health Unit.Behavioural neurology · 2021Article
- Refugee Mental Health, Global Health Policy, and the Syrian Crisis.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Health status of rescued people by the NGO Open Arms in response to the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean Sea.Conflict and health · 2020Article
- Cultural Competence of Professionals Working With Unaccompanied Minors: Addressing Empathy by a Shared Narrative.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Long-term mental health in unaccompanied refugee minors: pre- and post-flight predictors.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2019Article
- Mental health and associated stress factors in accompanied and unaccompanied refugee minors resettled in Germany: a cross-sectional study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundUnaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) have high levels of psychiatric symptoms, and concerns for their access to mental health services have been raised. From the mid-2000s, an increasing number of asylum-seeking URMs, mainly adolescent boys from Afghanistan, have been referred to the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry emergency unit in Malmö, Sweden. The aim of the study was to compare inpatient psychiatric care between URMs and non-URMs.
findingsAll admissions in 2011 at the emergency unit were identified and divided into URMs (n = 56) and non-URMs (n = 205). On the basis of unique patients' first treatment occasion, a group level analysis was performed on gender, age, treatment duration, additional treatment occasions/patient, involuntary care, involuntary care by gender, and ICD-10 principal diagnosis. To retrieve further sample characteristics, a questionnaire was administered to the physicians responsible for admitting patients in 2011. More URMs than non-URMs exhibited self-harm or suicidal behaviour in conjunction with referral. 86% of URMs were admitted with symptoms relating to stress in the asylum process. In the catchment area, 3.40% of the URM population received inpatient care and 0.67% inpatient involuntary care, compared to 0.26% and 0.02% respectively of the non-URM population, both comparisons p < 0.001. There were more boys in the URM group (95%) compared to the non-URM group (29%). A difference in use of involuntary care disappeared after adjusting for gender. No differences were found in diagnoses except for neurotic disorders (F40-48), which were more common in the URM group.
conclusionFrom an epidemiological perspective, URMs were overrepresented in inpatient psychiatric care.
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