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Ethnicity, self reported psychiatric illness, and intake of psychotropic drugs in five ethnic groups in Sweden

Author(s) -

Louise Bayard-Burfield

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

journal of epidemiology and community health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.692

H-Index - 170

eISSN - 1470-2738

pISSN - 0143-005X

DOI - 10.1136/jech.55.9.657

Subject(s) - medicine , ethnic group , turkish , demography , marital status , acculturation , logistic regression , psychiatry , psychotropic drug , ethnic origin , immigration , environmental health , drug , population , linguistics , philosophy , sociology , anthropology , archaeology , history

This study hypothesises that the presumed increased risk of self reported longstanding psychiatric illness and intake of psychotropic drugs among Iranian, Chilean, Turkish, and Kurdish adults, when these groups are compared with Polish adults, can be explained by living alone, poor acculturation, unemployment, and low sense of coherence.

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