TY - JOUR
T1 - Poverty and Psychiatric Status
T2 - Longitudinal Evidence From the New Haven Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study
AU - Bruce, Martha Livingston
AU - Takeuchi, David T.
AU - Leaf, Philip J.
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PY - 1991/5
Y1 - 1991/5
N2 - • We assessed the effect of poverty on psychiatric status using two waves of New Haven (Conn) Epidemiologic Catchment Area data. Poverty was defined using federal poverty guidelines; psychiatric status was assessed by the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). When examining the course of healthy respondents at the first interview, respondents in poverty had a twofoldincreased risk (controlling for demographic factors) for an episode of at least one DIS/DSM-III Axis I psychiatric disorder. Rates of most specific psychiatric disorders were comparably higher for respondents meeting poverty criteria compared with those not in poverty, although these differences were not always statistically significant. The effects of poverty did not differ by sex, age, race, or history of psychiatric episodes.
AB - • We assessed the effect of poverty on psychiatric status using two waves of New Haven (Conn) Epidemiologic Catchment Area data. Poverty was defined using federal poverty guidelines; psychiatric status was assessed by the Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS). When examining the course of healthy respondents at the first interview, respondents in poverty had a twofoldincreased risk (controlling for demographic factors) for an episode of at least one DIS/DSM-III Axis I psychiatric disorder. Rates of most specific psychiatric disorders were comparably higher for respondents meeting poverty criteria compared with those not in poverty, although these differences were not always statistically significant. The effects of poverty did not differ by sex, age, race, or history of psychiatric episodes.
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U2 - 10.1001/archpsyc.1991.01810290082015
DO - 10.1001/archpsyc.1991.01810290082015
M3 - Article
C2 - 2021300
AN - SCOPUS:0025905786
SN - 0003-990X
VL - 48
SP - 470
EP - 474
JO - Archives of general psychiatry
JF - Archives of general psychiatry
IS - 5
ER -