Psychiatric research in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 – a systematic review

ABSTRACTThe Northern Finland Birth Cohort1986 is a large population-based birth cohort, which aims to promote health and wellbeing of the population. In this paper, we systematically review the psychiatric research performed in the cohortuntil today, i.e. at the age of 32 years of the cohort(2018). We conducted a systematic literature search using the databases of PubMed and Scopusand complemented it with a manual search. We found a total of 94 articles, which were classified as examining ADHD, emotional and behavioural problems, psychosis risk or other studies relating to psychiatric subjects. The articles are mainly based on two large comprehensive follow-up studies of the cohortand several substudies. The studies have often used also nationwide register data. The studies have found several early predictors for the aforementioned psychiatric outcomes, such as problems at pregnancy and birth, family factors in childhood, physical inactivity and substance use in adolescence. There are also novel find...