The aim of this study was to examine the outcomes of out-of-home placement in adolescence. We used data from a longitudinal study of Swiss youths and measured all outcomes, including externalising problem behaviour, anxiety and depression, education, and self-efficacy at age 17. Propensity score matching was used to reduce selection effects and multiple imputation to treat the missing values. The findings revealed that youths who were placed in out-of-home care come from disproportionately problematic backgrounds, which complicated their proper matching to youths who were not placed in out-of-home care. Outcome analyses including multiple robustness checks suggest that negative outcomes among youths who were placed in out-of-home care are not so much due to the placement itself, but largely to pre-existing difficulties present already before the placement.

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青少年外出安置的长期影响：瑞士年轻人中的倾向得分匹配分析

这项研究的目的是检查青少年外出安置的结果。我们使用了来自瑞士青年的一项纵向研究的数据，并测量了所有结局，包括外部化问题行为，焦虑和抑郁，教育和17岁时的自我效能感。倾向得分匹配用于减少选择效应和多次插补以治疗失踪者价值观。调查结果表明，被安置在家庭外照料的年轻人来自不成比例的有问题的背景，这使他们与没有被安置在家庭外照料的年轻人的匹配变得更加复杂。结果分析（包括多项健壮性检查）表明，被安置在家庭护理之外的年轻人中，负面结果与其说是归因于安置本身，不如说是，