Medical Xpress October 12, 2025
A new student-led research study, co-authored and mentored by Berkeley Franz, Ph.D., professor at the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and co-director of the Institute to Advance Health Equity, shows that children who have had a parent go to jail or prison before they turn 18 are more likely to receive a mental health diagnosis by midlife. The study was recently published in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health.
Using a longitudinal dataset that has been following thousands of people across the U.S. since they were adolescents, they demonstrated that experiencing parental incarceration as a child—when a child’s mother or father goes to jail or prison—affects mental health in adulthood.
The study found that adults who...
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