Differences in psychiatric care utilisation among unaccompanied refugee minors, accompanied migrant minors, and Swedish-born minors
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Overrepresentation of unaccompanied refugee minors in inpatient psychiatric care
BACKGROUND Unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) have high levels of psychiatric symptoms, and concerns for their access to mental health services have been raised. From the mid-2000s, an increasing number of asylum-seeking URMs, mainly adolescent boys from Afghanistan, have been referred to the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry emergency unit in Malmö, Sweden. The aim of the study was to compare inp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0933-7954,1433-9285
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-020-01883-z