A meta-analytic review of the relationship between racial discrimination and alcohol and other drug use outcomes in minoritised racial/ethnic groups.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To measure the associations between racial discrimination and distinct alcohol and other drug use outcomes in minoritised racial/ethnic groups and to explore the moderating roles of demographic and methodological characteristics.

Methods

Quantitative studies including racial discrimination as an exposure (both binary and continuous), an alcohol and/or other drug use outcome and a minoritised racial/ethnic sample were identified via database, citation and journal searching. 130 studies contributing 273 effect sizes, across seventeen distinct outcomes, were included in this analysis. Random-effects meta-analytic models were implemented. Moderation effects were explored using subgroup analyses.

Results

Racial discrimination was positively associated with sixteen alc

SUBMITTER: Gates E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12586790 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature