Risk of eating disorders in international adoptees
Swedish registers compared more than 25,000 international adoptees with over two million non-adoptees, examining anorexia and other eating disorders alongside psychiatric diagnoses. It broadens adoption mental-health research beyond commonly studied diagnoses.
Limitations: Register diagnoses capture recognised or treated disorders; Swedish international adoptees only.
- Research type
- National register cohort
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Adolescents / Adults
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adolescents; adults
Adoption context: Intercountry adoption
Programme: Not recorded
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified in the bibliographic material screened. This is not confirmation of institutional independence; affiliations, funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: eating disorders, intercountry adoption, mental health, Sweden
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: Sweden
- Funding
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- Commissioner
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- Funder role
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- Declared conflicts
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- Recruitment
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- Adoptee involvement
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Entry: study_21b962eccdce50ef