Racial discrimination and the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children: Does the timing of first exposure matter?

ABSTRACT: Racial discrimination has been observed to negatively impact on the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, although evidence surrounding periods of greater vulnerability to the stressor of racism have not yet been explored in this population. We compared first exposure to interpersonal racism at either ages 4-5 years or 7 years with no exposure to examine the influence of sensitive periods of racism exposure on mental health and physiological outcomes during middle childhood (7-12 years). The study cohort comprised 1,759 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 4-12 years from waves 2-8 (2009-2015) of the Footprints in Time: 1The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children (LSIC) dataset. Multilevel logistic regression was used in all analysis. We observed a lar

SUBMITTER: Cave L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6804701 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature