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ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2025

Discrimination and Racial Inequities in Self-reported Mental Health Among Immigrants and Canadian-Born Individuals in a Large, Nationally Representative Canadian Survey.

Kathleen S Kenny, Susitha Wanigaratne, Lisa Merry, Arjumand Siddiqi, Marcelo L Urquia

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Kathleen S KennyManitoba Centre for Health Policy, Department of Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. Kathleen.Kenny@umanitoba.ca.ORCID 0000-0001-9531-5213
Susitha WanigaratneEdwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, SickKids Research Institute & the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Lisa MerryFaculty of Nursing, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
Arjumand SiddiqiDivision of Epidemiology, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Marcelo L UrquiaManitoba Centre for Health Policy, Department of Community Health Sciences, Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.

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Abstract

We examined the link between discrimination and self-rated mental health (SRMH) among immigrants and Canadian-born individuals, stratified according to an individual's identification as racialized or white. Using data from Canada's General Social Survey (2014) (weighted N = 27,575,000) with a novel oversample of immigrants, we estimated the association of perceived discrimination with SRMH separately among immigrants and Canadian-born individuals and stratified by racialized status. Among immigrants, we also investigated whether age-at-arrival attenuated or strengthened associations. The prevalence of discrimination was higher among racialized compared to white immigrants (18.9% versus 11.8%), and among racialized compared to white non-immigrants (20.0% versus 10.5%). In the adjusted model with immigrants, where white immigrants not reporting discrimination were the referent group, both white (adjusted prevalence odds ratio [aPOR] 6.11, 95% confidence interval [CI] 3.08, 12.12) and racialized immigrants (aPOR 2.28, 95% CI 1.29, 4.04) who experienced discrimination reported poorer SRMH. The associations were weaker among immigrants who immigrated in adulthood. In the adjusted model with non-immigrants, compared to unexposed white respondents, Canadian-born white respondents who experienced discrimination reported poorer SRMH (aPOR 3.62, 95% CI 2.99, 4.40) while no statistically significant association was detected among racialized respondents (aPOR 2.24, 95% CI 0.90, 5.58). Racialized respondents experienced significant levels of discrimination compared to white respondents irrespective of immigrant status. Discrimination was associated with poor SRMH among all immigrants, with some evidence of a stronger association for white immigrants and immigrants who migrated at a younger age. For Canadian-born individuals, discrimination was associated with poor SRMH among white respondents only.

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Emigrants and ImmigrantsHealth Status DisparitiesMental HealthRacismAdolescentAdultAgedCanadaFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSelf ReportWhite PeopleYoung AdultCanadaDiscriminationHealth inequitiesImmigrant healthImmigrantsRaceRacism

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PMCPMC12446120

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