Structural influences on psychiatric emergency department visits among racial and ethnic minority youth in North Carolina: A neighborhood-level analysis.

ABSTRACT: Mental health continues to be a growing crisis for children, adolescents, and young adults. Yet, increasing trends in subgroups are not uniform, and key differences exist across geographic, racial, and age groups. Few studies examine structural factors like economic and racial inequality, important upstream structural inequities that impact mental health. This study examines the association between individual drivers and structural factors like neighborhood privilege and youth mental health (i.e., depression, schizophrenia, suicide ideation, anxiety) and associated racial and ethnic disparities. Data on mental health were obtained from psychiatric emergency department (ED) visits for the state of North Carolina from 2012 to 2021 for residents under age 24. Multilevel logistic regressions w

SUBMITTER: Sugg MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11609029 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature