ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2010
Racism, mental illness and social support in the UK.
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- Racial Discrimination and Multiple Health Outcomes: An Umbrella Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses.Medical principles and practice : international journal of the Kuwait University, Health Science Centre · 2025Pooled it
- Migration and schizophrenia: meta-analysis and explanatory framework.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
- Perceived discrimination and psychosis: a systematic review of the literature.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2019Pooled it
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- Social networks, support and early psychosis: a systematic review.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2013Pooled it
- The association between experiences of racism and mental health on children and young people in the UK: rapid scoping review.BJPsych open · 2025Review
- The association between racism and psychosis: An umbrella review.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Acculturation, Perceptions about Seeking Mental Health Care, and Utilization of Mental Health Services among US-based South Asians.Ethnicity & disease · 2024Article
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- Review of Major Social Determinants of Health in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Disorders: II. Assessments.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- The impact of perceived discrimination on depressive symptoms and the role of differentiated social support among immigrant populations in South Korea.International journal for equity in health · 2019Article
- Prediction of adaptation difficulties by country of origin, cumulate psychosocial stressors and attitude toward integrating: a Swedish study of first-generation immigrants from Somalia, Vietnam and China.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2015Article
- Absence of protective ethnic density effect on Ecuadorian migrants' mental health in a recent migration setting: a multilevel analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2013Article
- The DRUID study: exploring mediating pathways between racism and depressive symptoms among indigenous Australians.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2012Article
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Abstract
purposeThe difference in risk of mental illness in UK ethnic minorities may be related to a balance between specific risk factors such as racial discrimination and mediating factors such as social support. We investigated whether social support from friends or relatives reduces the cross-sectional association between perceived racism and the risk of mental illness in an ethnic minority group.
methodsWe conducted secondary analyses of nationally representative community samples of five UK ethnic minority groups (EMPIRIC dataset; n = 4,281) using multiple regression techniques.
resultsWe found that the associations between perceived racism, common mental disorder and potentially psychotic symptoms were mainly independent of social support as measured by the number of close persons and their proximity to the individual.
conclusionSocial support when measured in this way does not mediate the associations between perceived racism and mental ill health in this population-based sample.
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