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PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
卷 39, 期 1, 页码 87-94出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291708003176
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Adolescents; ethnicity; self-harm behaviour; socio-economic status; young adults
Background. Previous studies have shown an elevated risk for self-harm in adolescents from ethnic minorities. However, potential contributions to this risk from socio-economic factors have rarely been addressed. The main aim of this article was to investigate any such effects. Method. A national cohort of 1009 157 children born during 1973-1982 was followed prospectively from 1991 to 2002 in Swedish national registers. Multivariate Cox analyses of proportional hazards were used to estimate the relative risk of hospital admission for self-harm. Parental country/region of birth was used as proxy for ethnicity. Results. Youth with two parents born outside Sweden (except those from Southern Europe) had higher age- and gender-adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) of self-harm than the majority population (HR 1.6-2.3). The HRs decreased for all immigrant groups when socio-economic factors were accounted for but remained significantly higher for immigrants from Finland and Western countries and for youth with one Swedish-born and one foreign-born parent. Conclusions. Socio-economic factors explain much of the variation by parental country of birth of hospital admissions for self-harm in youth in Sweden.
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