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Immigration and Lifetime Prevalence of DSM-IV PsychiatricDisorders Among Mexican Americans and Non-Hispanic Whites in the United States

Archives of General PsychiatryPublished 1 December 2004
Bridget F. Grant, Frederick S. Stinson, Deborah S. Hasin, Deborah A. Dawson, S. Patricia Chou, Karyn Anderson
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TL;DR

Data favoring foreign- born Mexican Americans with respect to mental health may extend to foreign-born non-Hispanic whites, and US-born Mexican Americans were at significantly lower risk of psychiatric morbidity than US- born non- Hispanic whites.

Abstract

Data favoring foreign-born Mexican Americans with respect to mental health may extend to foreign-born non-Hispanic whites. Future research among foreign-born and US-born Mexican Americans and the foreign-born and US-born of other origins and descents is needed to understand what appears to be the protective effects of culture and the deleterious effects of acculturation on psychiatric morbidity in the United States.

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PsychologyMedicine