Child Tax Credit, Spending Patterns, and Mental Health: Mediation Analyses of Data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey during COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: This study examined the relationship between the receipt of COVID-19 child tax credit and adult mental health problems in the United States, and we explored whether and the extent to which a wide range of spending patterns of the credit-15 patterns regarding basic necessities, child education, and household expenditure-mediated the relationship. We used COVID-19-specialized data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey, a representative population sample (N = 98,026) of adult respondents (18 and older) who participated between 21 July 2021 and 11 July 2022. By conducting mediation analyses with logistic regression, we found relationships between the credit and lower levels of anxiety (odds ratio [OR] = 0.914; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.879, 0.952). The OR was substantiall

SUBMITTER: Park J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10002275 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature