ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2017
Mental Health of Refugees and Non-refugees from War-Conflict Countries: Data from Primary Healthcare Services and the Norwegian Prescription Database.
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- Changes in health-related rehabilitation trajectories following a major Norwegian welfare reform.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Anxiety, depressive symptoms, and distress over the course of the war in Ukraine in three federal states in Germany.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Psychological distress among Afghan refugees in Norway as a function of their integration.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Mental disorder and first-time marriage formation among non-Western migrant women: A national register study.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Parental income and mental disorders in children and adolescents: prospective register-based study.International journal of epidemiology · 2021Article
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- The association between self-reported mental health, medication record and suicide risk: A population wide study.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Use of outpatient mental healthcare services and upper-secondary school completion in young women with migrant background - A population-based study.SSM - population health · 2020Article
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- Pre-migration socioeconomic status and post-migration health satisfaction among Syrian refugees in Germany: A cross-sectional analysis.PLoS medicine · 2020Article
- What Do Immigrants From Various Cultures Think Is the Best Way to Cope With Depression? Introducing the Cross-Cultural Coping Inventory.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Use of primary healthcare services prior to suicide in Norway: a descriptive comparison of immigrants and the majority population.BMC health services research · 2019Article
- Bibliometric analysis of global migration health research in peer-reviewed literature (2000-2016).BMC public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
High rates of mental health problems are consistently found among immigrants from refugee generating countries. While refugees and their family members may have experienced similar traumas, refugees are more likely to have undergone a stressful asylum period. This study aims to determine whether their mental health differs. Using national registry data, refugees and non-refugees from the same countries were compared on primary healthcare service use for mental health problems and purchase of psychotropic medicine. Refugees had higher odds of using primary health care services than non-refugees. Refugee women were more likely to purchase psychotropic medicine than non-refugee women. Refugee men were more likely to purchase anti-depressants. The findings suggest that refugees have poorer mental health than non-refugees. This may be due to a combination of greater pre-migration trauma and post-migration stressors such as enduring a difficult asylum period.
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