Social Vulnerability and Prevalence and Treatment for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Community-level social vulnerability (SV) is associated with physical illness and premature mortality. Its association with mental health (MH) and substance use disorders (SUDs) needs further study.

Objective

To study associations of SV with clinical diagnoses of MH disorders, SUDs, and related treatments in the US noninstitutionalized population of adults aged 18 years and older.

Design, setting, and participants

A survey of adults in a national sample of US households between October 2020 and October 2022. Participants drawn from a multistage, clustered, and stratified area probability sample of US households were included, excluding adults older than 65 years because of the difficulty of differentiating mental disorders from symptoms of dementia. The sam

SUBMITTER: Gibbons RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11446668 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature