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Odds of Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in School-Aged Children From Official Language Minority Communities
- Source :
- Frontiers in Public Health, Frontiers in Public Health, Vol 9 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2021.
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Abstract
- Objectives: The aim of this paper is to assess the odds of suffering from anxiety or depression symptoms based on the presence of certain determinants of health for youth living in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, and in two linguistically different Official Language Minority Communities (OLMCs) in the same province.Methods: With a sample of 22,329 students from grades 7 to 12 in the province of New Brunswick, Canada, logistic regressions were performed to assess each determinant of health's effect on symptoms of anxiety and depression.Results: Some social determinants, like family support, social support and food insecurity, were identified as important determinants of mental health status regardless of linguistic group membership or community membership, while other determinants, such as alcohol use, cannabis use and natural environment, were more prominent in one OLMC than the other.Discussion: Social psychology and public health theories are used in an attempt to explain the results. Limitations and recommendations are also brought forward.
- Subjects :
- Social psychology (sociology)
medicine.medical_specialty
Canada
Adolescent
Family support
OLMC
Anxiety
03 medical and health sciences
Social support
0302 clinical medicine
determinants of health
medicine
Humans
New Brunswick
030212 general & internal medicine
Social determinants of health
Official language
Child
Original Research
Language
030505 public health
Schools
Depression
Public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Mental health
epidemiology
Public Health
medicine.symptom
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
0305 other medical science
Psychology
mental health
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22962565
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....88454ec1907f047b5951cdec8d24a9c0