Risk of schizophrenia and other psychoses three times higher in refugees
[PRESS RELEASE, 16 MARCH 2016] A study of 1.3 million people in Sweden found that the risk of being diagnosed with schizophrenia or other psychoses was three times higher in refugees than in the Swedish-born population. The research team from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the University College London (UCL), UK, found that more than one in a thousand refugees were diagnosed with schizophrenia or other psychoses every year.For every 10,000 people, there would be approximately 4 new diagnoses among Swedish-born people per year, 8 among non-refugee migrants and 12 among refugees. The