Medical Xpress January 17, 2025
Poor mental health was increasingly prevalent from 2011 to 2022, with inequities discernible by age, sex, and racial and ethnic group, according to a research letter published online Jan. 15 in JAMA Network Open.
Emily Wright, Ph.D., from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues analyzed 2011 to 2022 data from three nationally representative repeated cross-sectional surveys (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System [BRFSS]; National Survey on Drug Use and Health [NSDUH]; and National Health Interview Survey [NHIS]) to quantify the prevalence of poor mental health.
The researchers found that 35.7 to 42.5% of adults in the BRFSS experienced poor mental health from 2011 to 2022. Despite using the same psychological distress measure, 31.1 to 35.8%...
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