Psychiatric illness among adults adopted as infants

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In an epidemiological study of 2,323 adopted adults, the registrations about sick‐leave, diagnoses and hospitalization (F‐cards) from the National Health Insurance were studied. There was a significantly higher frequency of psychiatric illness among the adoptees compared with non‐adopted controls. A classification into different diagnostic groups from the records of psychiatric hospitals showed an over‐representation due to alcohol and drug abuse and personality disorders in both male and female adoptee groups compared with non‐adopted controls. There was also an over‐representation in the male adoptee group due to neuroses.

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