ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2020
Differences in psychiatric care utilisation among unaccompanied refugee minors, accompanied migrant minors, and Swedish-born minors.
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- A systematic review of global mental health service utilisation in young refugees and asylum seekers.BJPsych open · 2026Review
- Access to medicines among asylum seekers, refugees and undocumented migrants across the migratory cycle in Europe: a scoping review.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- Children's emotional and behavioral response following a migration: a scoping review.Journal of migration and health · 2023Article
- The role of sociodemographic and clinical factors in the initiation and discontinuation of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication among young adults in Sweden.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- 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.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022Article
- Are all children treated equally? Psychiatric care and treatment receipt among migrant, descendant and majority Swedish children: a register-based study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2022Article
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- Mental health service use among migrant and Swedish-born children and youth: a register-based cohort study of 472,129 individuals in Stockholm.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
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purposeTo better understand underutilisation of psychiatric care among migrant children, we compared utilisation of psychiatric care among unaccompanied refugee minors and accompanied migrant minors, with Swedish-born minors.
methodsUsing a large longitudinal database of linked national registers, we established a retrospective cohort of 1,328,397 people born 1984-1988 comparing minors born in Sweden to 2 Swedish-born parents (95.4%) to minors who had been arriving in Sweden between 2002 and 2011 with a permanent resident permit and were either unaccompanied refugee minors (0.4%), or accompanied migrant minors (4.0%). The outcome measures were different measures of psychiatric care including in- and outpatient care, and prescribed psychotropic medication.
resultCompared with the Swedish-born minors the unaccompanied refugee minors had a higher likelihood of utilisation of all psychiatric care except ADHD medication. However, compared with accompanied migrant minors, the Swedish-born minors had a higher likelihood of having utilised psychiatric care.
conclusionOur study shows that during the first years of living in Sweden, there seems to be fewer barriers to psychiatric care for unaccompanied refugee minors compared to the accompanied migrant minors. There are a number of possible reasons for this including stronger ties with the Swedish society.
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