Mental Health Problems Among Adolescents in Sweden from 1995 to 2011 : The Role of Immigrant Status and the Proportions of Immigrant Adolescents in Their Surrounding Community
(2020) In Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 22(2). p.232-239- Abstract
We compared the mental health of native and immigrant adolescents in Sweden from 1995 to 2011 and examined whether the municipality-level proportion of immigrant adolescents moderated the association between individual-level immigrant status and mental health. The sample (14,189 adolescents aged 15-16) was obtained from a repeated cross-sectional study conducted from 1995 to 2011. Adolescent self-report data (gender, immigrant status, economic situation, and mental health) and municipality-level data (proportion of immigrant adolescents) were used in multilevel linear regression analyses. Immigrant adolescents reported more mental health problems than their native Swedish peers. The long-term trend in mental health problems did not... (More)
We compared the mental health of native and immigrant adolescents in Sweden from 1995 to 2011 and examined whether the municipality-level proportion of immigrant adolescents moderated the association between individual-level immigrant status and mental health. The sample (14,189 adolescents aged 15-16) was obtained from a repeated cross-sectional study conducted from 1995 to 2011. Adolescent self-report data (gender, immigrant status, economic situation, and mental health) and municipality-level data (proportion of immigrant adolescents) were used in multilevel linear regression analyses. Immigrant adolescents reported more mental health problems than their native Swedish peers. The long-term trend in mental health problems did not differ between the two groups. The association between individual immigrant status and mental health did not differ according to the municipality-level rate of immigrant adolescents. These findings highlight the need for public health attention to and efforts to address immigrant adolescents' mental health problems in Sweden.
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- Kim, Yunhwan LU ; Evans, Brittany and Hagquist, Curt
- publishing date
- 2020-04
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Immigrant status, Adolescents, Mental health, Trend, Proportion of immigrants
- in
- Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
- volume
- 22
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 8 pages
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85076589592
- pmid:31828484
- ISSN
- 1557-1912
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10903-019-00951-0
- language
- English
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- d0411d96-b68b-476b-aedb-5ca6b9af1552
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abstract = {{<p>We compared the mental health of native and immigrant adolescents in Sweden from 1995 to 2011 and examined whether the municipality-level proportion of immigrant adolescents moderated the association between individual-level immigrant status and mental health. The sample (14,189 adolescents aged 15-16) was obtained from a repeated cross-sectional study conducted from 1995 to 2011. Adolescent self-report data (gender, immigrant status, economic situation, and mental health) and municipality-level data (proportion of immigrant adolescents) were used in multilevel linear regression analyses. Immigrant adolescents reported more mental health problems than their native Swedish peers. The long-term trend in mental health problems did not differ between the two groups. The association between individual immigrant status and mental health did not differ according to the municipality-level rate of immigrant adolescents. These findings highlight the need for public health attention to and efforts to address immigrant adolescents' mental health problems in Sweden.</p>}},
author = {{Kim, Yunhwan and Evans, Brittany and Hagquist, Curt}},
issn = {{1557-1912}},
keywords = {{Immigrant status; Adolescents; Mental health; Trend; Proportion of immigrants}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{2}},
pages = {{232--239}},
publisher = {{Springer}},
series = {{Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health}},
title = {{Mental Health Problems Among Adolescents in Sweden from 1995 to 2011 : The Role of Immigrant Status and the Proportions of Immigrant Adolescents in Their Surrounding Community}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-019-00951-0}},
doi = {{10.1007/s10903-019-00951-0}},
volume = {{22}},
year = {{2020}},
}