King’s College London
Furthermore, racism strengthened the effect of PM
2.5 on conduct problems as they aged. At higher concentrations of PM
2.5, this effect differed by ethnicity, with White British and Black Caribbean adolescents experiencing an increase in conduct problems with age.
The study published recently in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, by authors from King’s, Imperial College London, University College London, and Leeds Beckett university, explored for the first time in the UK the potential effect of exposure to PM
2.5 and NO
2 air pollution on the change in conduct problem symptoms for adolescents from different ethnicities.
A total of 4,775 participants from 2002-2003 (aged 11-13 years) to 2005-2006 (aged 14-16 years) were followed. Researchers had access to information about long-term exposure to air-pollution measured at their residential address. Adolescents completed questionnaires about conduct problem symptoms, experiences of racism, so