ArticlePLOS global public health2025
Housing during the asylum process and its association with healthcare utilization for common mental disorders among refugees in Sweden: A nationwide cohort study.
Article in PLOS global public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Addressing mental health care needs of vulnerable migrants by public psychiatry in France: the CAPSYS clinic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Refugees and asylum seekers face an increased risk of poor mental health, and evidence shows that housing in the post-migration context plays a crucial role in shaping their mental well-being. Research also suggests that institutional accommodations during the asylum process might be more detrimental to their mental health compared to private accommodations. We aimed to prospectively estimate the associations between housing type during the asylum process (institutional or self-organized accommodations) and healthcare utilization for common mental disorders (CMDs) after being granted a residence permit as a refugee in Sweden. This register-based cohort study includes all asylum seekers aged 18-60 who were granted residence permits in Sweden between 2010 and 2012, totaling 20,396 individuals, of whom 11,694 resided in self-organized housing (EBO) and 8,702 in accommodation centers (ABO). Using a generalized estimating equation (GEE), we estimated the associations between housing type (ABO or EBO) and prescriptions for antidepressants or anxiolytic medication, as well as specialized in- and outpatient visits with a diagnosis of CMDs, over a five-year follow-up period after being granted a residence permit. The adjusted odds ratio (controlled for sociodemographic factors) showed that those who had lived in ABO, compared with EBO, had a greater risk of any antidepressant or anxiolytic prescriptions (OR = 1.32, [1.21-1.44]) as well as any specialized in- or outpatient visits with a CMD diagnosis (OR = 1.41 [1.27-1.52]). Our results demonstrate that former asylum seekers who have lived in institutional housing use more mental healthcare services than those who have lived in self-organized housing, even when potential sociodemographic confounders and mediators are adjusted for. These associations persisted for up to five years after they had received a residence permit, highlighting that when asylum seekers live in institutional housing it is especially important to discuss how health can be promoted during the asylum-seeking period.
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.