Young adults shed light on what matters for mental health of ethnic diverse youth
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Updated: Mar 17, 2021 08:07 IST
Washington [US], March 17 (ANI): A study in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), reports on the young adult assessment of the now 20-year longitudinal Boricua Youth Study (BYS), a large cohort that brings much-needed insight about development and mental health of children from a diverse ethnic background growing up in disadvantaged contexts.
The results of the study were published by Elsevier in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
The present article, with its companion report on the prevalence of conditions and associated factors, provides an update on the study's fourth wave, which follows-up two probability-based population samples of children of Puerto Rican heritage. Unique to the study is its two-site design, which allows for comparison of a single ethnic group in two contexts: one in which the group is an ethnic minority living in a disadvantaged area (South Bronx, NY); and another where though challenges are many, children do not grow up being part of an ethnic minority group (San Juan, Puerto Rico).