Poor Self-reported Health and Sleeping Difficulties among Kurdish Immigrant Men in Sweden

This study explores the association between ethnicity and poor self-reported health and psychological distress, sleeping difficulties, and use of psychotropic drugs among immigrant Kurdish men and native Swedish men, based on data from the first Swedish National Survey of Immigrants and the Swedish Level-of-Living Surveys collected in 1996 by Statistics Sweden. The age-adjusted odds of poor self-reported health and sleeping difficulties among Kurdish men was about 3.5 times higher than among Swedish men. The odds ratio decreased to 2.1 and 2.7 respectively in a model adjusted for age and the other explanatory variables. Yearning for the home country, perceived discrimination and unemployment in the host country seem to be possible explanations for the higher levels of distress among Kurdish immigrants to Sweden

Distress · Ethnic group · Geography · Immigration · Logistic regression · National Health Interview Survey · Odds · Odds ratio · Population · Self-rated health · Sociology · Unemployment · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology · Gerontology

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