Suicide risk among refugees compared with non-refugee migrants and the Swedish-born majority population.

CONCLUSIONS: Being a refugee was not an additional risk factor for suicide. Our findings regarding temporal changes in suicide risk suggest that acculturation and socioeconomic deprivation may account for a convergence of suicide risk between migrants and the host population over time. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: None. PMID: 31608849 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31608849?dopt=Abstract

Source: The British Journal of Psychiatry for Mental Science - October 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Br J Psychiatry Source Type: research