Background: The number of people seeking gender reassignment (GR) has increased everywhere and these increases particularly concern adolescents and emerging adults with female sex. It is not known whether the psychiatric needs of this population have changed alongside the demographic changes.
Methods: A register-based follow-up study of individuals who contacted the nationally centralized gender identity services (GIS) in Finland in 1996-2019 (gender dysphoria [GD] group, = 3665), and 8:1 age and sex-matched population controls ( = 29,292).
Objective: This study explored the incidence and stability of schizophrenia in a large national register data of all adolescents first admitted to psychiatric inpatient care at ages 13-17 in Finland 1980-2010.
Methods: The study population (N 17,112) comprised all Finnish citizens aged 13-17 receiving their first ever psychiatric inpatient treatment between 1980 and 2010 in Finland. To explore incidence and stability of schizophrenia, the diagnostic information on inpatient care or disability pension was obtained from the appropriate registers.
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
November 2023
Mental disorders may for various reasons impair educational attainment, and with far-reaching consequences given the impact of education on subsequent employment, social life, life choices and even health and mortality. This register-based study addresses trends in educational attainment among Finnish adolescents aged 13-17 with mental disorders severe enough to necessitate inpatient treatment between 1980 and 2010. Our subjects (N = 14,435), followed up until the end of 2014, were at greater risk of discontinuing education beyond compulsory comprehensive school or of lower educational attainment than their age-peers in general population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Some mental disorders have been associated with increased likelihood of sexual offending in adolescents (and adults), but relevant studies tend to be of established sex offenders.
Aims: To examine relationships between adolescent mental disorders and subsequent involvement in sex offending and to explore any predictive value of primary diagnoses for subsequent interpersonal offending, whether sexual or violent.
Methods: We analyse national register-based longitudinal data on males in Finland admitted for their first psychiatric inpatient treatment between the ages of 13-17 in the period 1980-2010 (N = 6749).
Purpose: This register-based study aimed to evaluate trends in adolescent psychiatric inpatient care using nationwide data from three consecutive decades.
Methods: The study population ( 17,112) comprised all Finnish citizens aged 13-17 receiving their first-ever psychiatric inpatient treatment between 1980 and 2010 in Finland. Information on inpatient care in the psychiatric hospital was obtained from the Hospital Discharge Register and the Care Register for Health Care, which contains data on all patients discharged from all Finnish inpatient psychiatric health services.