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  • Titel: Migration background and juvenile mental health: a descriptive retrospective analysis of diagnostic rates of psychiatric disorders in young people
  • Beteiligte: Gaber, Tilman Jakob [Verfasser:in]; Bouyrakhen, Samira [Verfasser:in]; Herpertz-Dahlmann, Beate [Verfasser:in]; Hagenah, Ulrich [Verfasser:in]; Holtmann, Martin [Verfasser:in]; Freitag, Christine Margarete [Verfasser:in]; Wöckel, Lars [Verfasser:in]; Poustka, Fritz [Verfasser:in]; Zepf, Florian Daniel [Verfasser:in]
  • Erschienen: Co-Action Publishing, 2013
  • Erschienen in: Global health action 6( ), 20187 (2013). doi:10.3402/gha.v6i0.20187
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v6i0.20187
  • ISSN: 1654-9880; 1654-9716
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  • Beschreibung: Introduction: This article presents diagnostic rates for specific mental disorders in a German pediatric inpatient population over a period of 20 years with respect to migration background and socioeconomic status (SES).Methods: Diagnostic data were obtained over a period of 20 years from 8,904 patients who visited a child and adolescent psychiatry mental health service in Germany. Data from 5,985 diagnosed patients (ICD-9 and ICD-10 criteria) were included with respect to gender, migration background, and SES.Results: Migration- and gender-specific effects were found for both periods of assessment. The group of boys with a migration background showed significantly higher rates of reactions to severe stress, adjustment disorders, and posttraumatic stress disorder compared to their male, non-migrant counterparts. Conversely, boys without a migration background showed a significantly higher percentage rate of hyperkinetic disorders than male migrants. Similar results were found for female migrants in the latter assessment period (ICD-10). In addition, female migrants showed lower rates of emotional disorders whose onset occurs in childhood compared to their non-migrant counterparts.Conclusions: Data from this investigation provide preliminary evidence that the prevalence of various psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents is influenced by migration background and SES.
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