Dhadda, Amrit and Greene, Giles  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9326-8740
2018.
'The healthy migrant effect' for mental health in England: propensity-score matched analysis using the EMPIRIC survey.
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
20
, pp. 799-808.
10.1007/s10903-017-0570-z
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Abstract
Evidence has demonstrated that immigrants have a mental health advantage over the indigenous population of developed countries. However, much of the evidence-base demonstrating this mental health advantage is susceptible to confounding and inadequate adjustment across immigrant and non-immigrant groups preventing a rigorous assessment of a ’healthy migrant effect’. To compare the risk of common mental disorders in the immigrant population compared to the non-immigrant population in ethnic minority groups in England. A propensity-score matched analysis was carried out to adequately balance immigrant and non-immigrant groups for known confounders using the EMPIRIC national survey of Black-Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi groups. The mental health of participants was assessed using the validated Revised Clinical Interview Schedule tool. Immigrant participants were significantly less likely to have a common mental disorder than non-immigrant participants; OR = 0.47, (95% CI 0.40, 0.56). The results from this study demonstrate that a mental health advantage exists in ethnic minority immigrants compared to non-immigrants when balancing the two groups for confounding factors. This may be due to immigrants possessing certain personality traits, such as 'psychological hardiness', that the migration process may select for.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Medicine |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Immigrants, Healthy migrant effect, Mental health UK |
| Additional Information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Publisher: | Springer Verlag (Germany) |
| ISSN: | 1557-1912 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 9 May 2017 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 16 March 2017 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2023 19:09 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/100454 |
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