Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Women's Mental Health: A Longitudinal Study of Hurricane Katrina Survivors, 2005-2015.

ABSTRACT: There is limited knowledge on the relationship between neighborhood factors and mental health among displaced disaster survivors, particularly among women. Hurricane Katrina (Katrina) was the largest internal displacement in the United States (U.S.), which presented itself as a natural experiment. We examined the association between neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and mental health among women up to 10 years following Katrina (N = 394). We also investigated whether this association was modified by move status, comparing women who were permanently displaced to those who had returned to their pre-Katrina residence. We used hierarchical linear models to measure this association, using data from the American Community Survey and the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health study. Neighborhoo

SUBMITTER: Nguyen AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9859160 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature