Mother's country of birth and prescription of psychotropic medication in Swedish adolescents: a life course approach.

Summary, in English

Besides medical needs, psychotropic medication use in adolescence might be conditioned by the cultural context of the family. This knowledge is relevant for both detecting inequities in healthcare, and identifying information bias in epidemiological studies using psychotropic medication as a proxy for impaired psychological health. Therefore, we investigated whether, independent of needs, the socioeconomic characteristics of the mother's country of birth are associated with psychotropic medication use in Swedish-born adolescents.

• Author: Willemijn van Leeuwen; Sofia Nilsson; Juan Merlo
• Department/s: Social Epidemiology; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publishing year: 2012
• Language: English
• Pages: 001260-001260
• Publication/Series: BMJ Open
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 5
• Full text: - 258 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22983874?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001260
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
• Topic: Environmental Health and Occupational Health
• Status: Published
• Project: Social Pharmacoepidemiology
• Research group: Social Epidemiology
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 2044-6055