TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gaber, Tilman Jakob
AU  - Bouyrakhen, Samira
AU  - Herpertz-Dahlmann, Beate
AU  - Hagenah, Ulrich
AU  - Holtmann, Martin
AU  - Freitag, Christine Margarete
AU  - Wöckel, Lars
AU  - Poustka, Fritz
AU  - Zepf, Florian Daniel
TI  - Migration background and juvenile mental health: a descriptive retrospective analysis of diagnostic rates of psychiatric disorders in young people
JO  - Global health action
VL  - 6
IS  -  
SN  - 1654-9880
CY  - Järfälla
PB  - Co-Action Publishing
M1  - FZJ-2015-04325
SP  - 20187
PY  - 2013
AB  - 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000320597600001
DO  - DOI:10.3402/gha.v6i0.20187
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/202036
ER  -