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Common mental disorders, neighbourhood income inequality and income deprivation: small-area multilevel analysis

Fone, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6476-4881, Greene, Giles ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9326-8740, Farewell, Daniel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8871-1653, White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-8453, Kelly, Mark and Dunstan, Frank David John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1043-5281 2013. Common mental disorders, neighbourhood income inequality and income deprivation: small-area multilevel analysis. British Journal of Psychiatry 202 (4) , pp. 286-293. 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.116178

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Abstract

Background Common mental disorders are more prevalent in areas of high neighbourhood socioeconomic deprivation but whether the prevalence varies with neighbourhood income inequality is not known. Aims To investigate the hypothesis that the interaction between small-area income deprivation and income inequality was associated with individual mental health. Method Multilevel analysis of population data from the Welsh Health Survey, 2003/04–2010. A total of 88 623 respondents aged 18–74 years were nested within 50 587 households within 1887 lower super output areas (neighbourhoods) and 22 unitary authorities (regions), linked to the Gini coefficient (income inequality) and the per cent of households living in poverty (income deprivation). Mental health was measured using the Mental Health Inventory MHI-5 as a discrete variable and as a ‘case’ of common mental disorder. Results High neighbourhood income inequality was associated with better mental health in low-deprivation neighbourhoods after adjusting for individual and household risk factors (parameter estimate +0.70 (s.e. = 0.33), P = 0.036; odds ratio (OR) for common mental disorder case 0.92, 95% CI 0.88–0.97). Income inequality at regional level was significantly associated with poorer mental health (parameter estimate -1.35 (s.e. = 0.54), P = 0.012; OR = 1.13, 95% CI 1.04–1.22). Conclusions The associations between common mental disorders, income inequality and income deprivation are complex. Income inequality at neighbourhood level is less important than income deprivation as a risk factor for common mental disorders. The adverse effect of income inequality starts to operate at the larger regional level.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Biosciences
Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer)
Healthcare Sciences
Medicine
Subjects: R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher: Royal College of Psychiatrists
ISSN: 0007-1250
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2022 07:21
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/75580

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