Overrepresentation of unaccompanied refugee minors in inpatient psychiatric care.

Summary, in English

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 inpatient psychiatric care between URMs and non-URMs.

• Author: Björn Ramel; Jakob Täljemark; Anna Lindgren; Björn Axel Johansson
• Department/s: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; Mathematical Statistics
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: SpringerPlus
• Volume: 4
• Full text: - 355 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25825687?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-015-0902-1
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Springer
• Topic: Psychiatry
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 2193-1801