abstract: Interethnic Analyses of Distributions in Children and Adolescents Mental Disorders in a Health Care Utilization The study examines ethnic differences in mental disorders in a child and adolescent psychiatry population in a major German city from 2007 to 2011 (N = 5,680). Risks of developing specific mental disorders were calculated. African migrant children and adolescents showed higher risk in traumatic stress and adjustment disorders (F 43 in ICD-10), the Asiatic group in dissociative disorders (F 44-45). Compared to other European migrants the German children and adolescents without migration background had a higher risk of affective disorders (F 3). Adolescents (N = 3,556) with Russian and Polish background had a higher risk of disorders induced by psychotropic substances (F 1). Turkish and Arabic adolescents had a 4- to 5-times increasing risk in schizophrenia as well as schizotypal or delusional disorders (F 2). In addition, mental disorders were influenced by gender and nationality. These study results suggest that a different vulnerability to specific mental disorders is associated to ethnicity.
authors.forename: Esmahan
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Belhdj Kouider
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dupont
authors.forename: Ute
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Koglin
authors.forename: Alfred L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Lorenz
authors.forename: Franz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Petermann
keywords: Epidemiologie - psychische Storungen - ethnische Gruppe - Migration - Versorgungsforschung; epidemiology - mental disorders - ethnic group - migration - health services research