Open AccessSocial inequalities contribute to racial/ethnic disparities in depressive symptomology among men who have sex with men
Author(s) -
Benjamin W. Barrett,
Alison G. Abraham,
Lorraine T. Dean,
Michael Plankey,
M. Reuel Friedman,
Lisa P. Jacobson,
Linda A. Teplin,
Pamina M. Gorbach,
Pamela J. Surkan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.863
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1433-9285
pISSN - 0933-7954
DOI - 10.1007/s00127-020-01940-7
Subject(s) - ethnic group , demography , socioeconomic status , gerontology , men who have sex with men , depression (economics) , public health , epidemiology , medicine , center for epidemiologic studies depression scale , multicenter aids cohort study , health equity , cohort , cohort study , psychology , depressive symptoms , psychiatry , population , anxiety , sida , family medicine , viral disease , anthropology , macroeconomics , sociology , syphilis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , nursing , economics , virus , virology
Racial/ethnic minorities experience disproportionate rates of depressive symptoms in the United States. The magnitude that underlying factors-such as social inequalities-contribute to these symptoms is unknown. We sought to identify exposures that explain racial/ethnic differences in clinically significant depressive symptomology among men who have sex with men (MSM).