Discrimination increases risk for mental health issues in young adults: Study
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The effects of discrimination may be cumulative -- that the greater number of incidents of discrimination someone experiences, the more their risk for mental and behavioural problems increases.
Washington: A new UCLA study has found that young adults who have experienced discrimination have a higher risk for both short and long-term behavioural and mental health problems.The findings of the study were published in the journal ‘Pediatrics’.
Researchers examined a decade’s worth of health data on 1,834 Americans who were between 18 and 28 years old when the study began. They found that the effects of discrimination may be cumulative -- that the greater number of incidents of discrimination someone experiences, the more their risk for mental and behavioural problems increases.
The study also suggested that the effects of discrimination in young adults are connected with disparities in care for mental health concerns and institutional discrimination in health care overall, including inequities in diagnoses, treatment and health outcomes.
