Psychotherapy use among migrants: a register-based longitudinal study
Venla Lehti, Valentina Kieseppä, Mika Gissler, Jaana Suvisaari, Niina Markkula · 2024
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Description
Lehti and co-authors use Finland's registers to ask whether migrants reach long-term psychotherapy as often as the Finnish-born. The study matched 185,605 migrants with equal numbers of native controls and tracked publicly supported therapy from 2007 to 2020. Only 1,516 migrants started therapy, against 7,258 controls.
Adjusted, migrants began therapy at barely a quarter of the native rate. Those from sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, and the recently arrived, fared worst of all. Migrants who did start also received shorter courses. The authors argue the gap cannot reflect lower need, since migrant groups carry heavy burdens of trauma and stress, and they call for deliberate outreach to equalize access.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Venla Lehti, Valentina Kieseppä, Mika Gissler, Jaana Suvisaari, Niina Markkula |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |