ArticleActa paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2021
Underutilisation of psychiatric care among refugee adolescents in Stockholm.
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- Developing a Collaborative Approach to Support Access and Acceptability of Mental Health Care for Refugee Youth: An Exploratory Case Study with Young Afghan Refugees.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Good practice in reaching and treating refugees in addiction care in Germany - a Delphi study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Age and environmental factors predict psychological symptoms in adolescent refugees during the initial post-resettlement phase.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 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
- Underutilisation of psychiatric care among refugee adolescents in Stockholm.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2021Article
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Abstract
aimRefugee children have been shown to underutilise psychiatric services in Scandinavia. The aim of this study was to investigate determinants of psychiatric care utilisation in adolescents in refugee families.
methodsThe study used regional data on healthcare use linked to sociodemographic data from national registers in a total population of 93 537 adolescents in the Stockholm County born in 1995-2000, including 18 831 with a refugee background. Cox regression analyses were fitted to estimate Hazard ratios (HRs) of psychiatric care utilisation in the age-span 11-18 years.
resultsPsychiatric care use was lower in the large majority of adolescents in refugee families that originated in low- and middle-income countries, with adjusted HRs 0.34 (95% CI 0.28-0.42) and 0.51 (95% CI 0.46-0.56), respectively, compared with the Swedish majority population. Among the foreign-born refugee adolescents, psychiatric care use increased with duration of residence in Sweden and was higher in children who obtained residency as asylum seekers compared with those who settled in family reunification.
conclusionAdolescents in newly settled refugee families with a background in low- and middle-income countries should be a priority in mental health assessment of refugee children and referral to psychiatric care facilitated for children in need.
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