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== PRS used to justify existing political policies == Bodegård (2014) describes how large numbers of children from families claiming asylum were found to have pervasive refusal syndrome, and an unethical study by the Swedish government ministry for asylum and refugees concluded that the illness may be malingered or provide [[secondary gain]] by allowing asylum-seeking families to obtain residence in Sweden for the treatment of their ill child.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal | last = Bodegård | first = Göran | authorlink = | date = Mar 1, 2014 | title = Comment on the paper “Pervasive Refusal Syndrome (PRS) 21 years on—a reconceptualization and renaming” by Ken Nunn, Bryan Lask and Isabel Owen | url =https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-013-0435-5|journal=European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry|language=en|volume=23|issue=3|pages=179–181|doi=10.1007/s00787-013-0435-5|issn=1435-165X|quote=|via=}}</ref> Bodegård reports the study ignored the childrens' current living conditions and possible prior traumatic experiences, despite that many were seeking refuge after war, and used pervasive refusal syndrome to justify the mass deportation of families and their seriously ill children. Sweden later used new medical evidence to re-classify PRS as a form of [[depression]].<ref name=":2" />
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