Social inequalities in mental disorders and substance misuse in young adults : A birth cohort study in Southern Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To investigate the association between mental disorders and substance misuse at 30 years of age with gender, socioeconomic position at birth, and family income trajectories.

Methods

The 1982 Pelotas Birth Cohort was used; all 5914 children born alive at hospital were originally enrolled (99.2% of all city births). In 2012, 3701 subjects were located and interviewed (68% retention rate). Mental disorders and substance misuse were assessed, and their prevalence analysed according to gender, socioeconomic status at birth, and four different income trajectories: always poor, never poor, poor at birth/non-poor at age 30, and non-poor at birth/poor at age 30.

Results

While women presented higher prevalence of mental disorders, substance misuse was much more frequent

SUBMITTER: Barros FC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6003971 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature