Abstract
ObjectiveOur aim was to investigate whether the risk of depression in adulthood in children raised by substitute parents from an early age differ by care arrangements.MethodsRegister study in Swedish national...
Highlights
Adverse experiences, child abuse and neglect, have been linked to a number of negative outcomes, with longitudinal evidence showing the impact on physical[1] as well as on mental health.[2]
In a previous study,[11] we have shown that the educational achievement and income of young adult men raised in foster care in Sweden is considerably lower than that of men in the general population with the same test scores on IQ tests, suggesting that educational achievement and income are important components in trajectories from foster care to adulthood
Compared with the general population, individuals in the foster care group had the highest HRs for both outcomes, 2.07 for antidepressive medication, and 2.85 for hospital psychiatric care with a diagnosis of depression
Summary
Child abuse and neglect, have been linked to a number of negative outcomes, with longitudinal evidence showing the impact on physical[1] as well as on mental health.[2] Research on stress neurobiology is helping to gain a better understanding of the connections between early adversity (in the form of abuse and neglect, traumatic experiences and chronic exposure to toxic stress), its ‘deep-seated’ neurobiological alterations[3] and later mental health disturbances
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