Migration background and juvenile mental health: A descriptive retrospective analysis of diagnostic rates of psychiatric disorders in young people

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gaber, Tilman Jakob ^a,b   Bouyrakhen, Samira ^c   Herpertz Dahlmann, Beate ^a,b   Hagenah, Ulrich ^a   Holtmann, Martin ^c,d   Freitag, Christine Margarete ^c   Wöckel, Lars ^a,c   Poustka, Fritz ^c   Zepf, Florian Daniel ^a,b,c,e  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JARA Translational Brain Medicine   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Immigration issues; Mental health; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENTS; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION ISSUES; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; MENTAL DISORDERS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADOLESCENTS; CHILDREN; IMMIGRATION ISSUES; MENTAL HEALTH; RISK FACTORS;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84886264651     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.20187     Document Type: Article

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