@article{ref1,
title="Ethnicity, socio-economic status and self-harm in Swedish youth: a national cohort study",
journal="Psychological medicine",
year="2008",
author="Hjern, Anders and Lindblad, Frank and Lindberg, Lene and Jablonska, Beata",
volume="",
number="",
pages="1-8",
abstract="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.MethodA 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0033-2917",
doi="10.1017/S0033291708003176",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291708003176"
}