ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2020
Perceived Discrimination and Mental Well-being in Arab Americans from Southeast Michigan: a Cross-Sectional Study.
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- Depression and Anxiety Among Arab Individuals in the United States: A Meta-analysis.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Pooled it
- New Checkbox, Now What? A Scoping Review to Guide Health Research among Middle Eastern and North African Communities.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Health Outcomes Among MENA Populations in the United States: A Comparative Analysis of Foreign-Born and Native-Born Individuals.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Article
- Perceived discrimination and employment anxiety among impoverished students in Chinese higher vocational colleges: roles of relative deprivation and rumination.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Discrimination in Middle Eastern and North African Americans predicts Worse Mental Health as Mediated by Sleep.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African Health Disparities Research: A Scoping Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Study designs, measures and indexes used in studying the structural racism as a social determinant of health in high income countries from 2000-2022: evidence from a scoping review.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- Social Support as a Mediator of the Relationship between Identity Fusion and Psychological Well-Being in South-South Migrant Populations.Journal of international migration and integration · 2022Article
- A Snapshot of Social Risk Factors and Associations with Health Outcomes in a Community Sample of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) People in the U.S.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2022Article
- The Effect of Stress, Acculturation, and Heritage Identity on Depression in Arab Americans.Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives · 2021Article
- Ethnic Identity as a Mediator of the Relationship between Discrimination and Psychological Well-Being in South-South Migrant Populations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Affects as Mediators of the Negative Effects of Discrimination on Psychological Well-Being in the Migrant Population.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- The effect of stress and acculturation on the self-rated health of Arab Americans.Journal of family & community medicineArticle
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Abstract
There is growing evidence for the adverse health effects of structural and individual forms of discrimination in multiple religious, ethnic, and racial groups. Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Arab Americans have experienced increasingly more frequent and visible forms of discrimination. However, the impact of these experiences on their mental well-being requires further investigation. This study examines the association between perceived discrimination and several markers of mental health and well-being, using cross-sectional data from a convenience sample of 279 Arab American adults from southeast Michigan. After adjustment for a series of relevant confounders, perceived discrimination was significantly associated with depressive symptoms (estimate 0.93, 95% CI 0.53, 1.34, p < 0.01), anxiety symptoms (estimate 0.48, 95% CI 0.19, 0.77, p < 0.01), and poor self-rated health (OR 1.31, 95% CI 1.08, 1.58, p < 0.01). The study highlights the need to address and mitigate health disparities among individuals of Arab descent and improves awareness of the potential health effects of ongoing structural and interpersonal discrimination toward this population.
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