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- Title
Differences in psychiatric care utilisation among unaccompanied refugee minors, accompanied migrant minors, and Swedish-born minors.
- Authors
Axelsson, Lovisa; Bäärnhielm, Sofie; Dalman, Christina; Hollander, Anna-Clara
- Abstract
Purpose: To 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. Methods: Using 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. Result: Compared 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. Conclusion: Our 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.
- Subjects
SWEDEN; MENTAL health services; MINORS; REFUGEES; OUTPATIENT medical care; IMMIGRANTS
- Publication
Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2020, Vol 55, Issue 11, p1449
- ISSN
0933-7954
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00127-020-01883-z