Demographic and Social Variables Associated with Psychiatric and                 School-Related Indicators for Asian/Pacific-Islander Adolescents

Hishinuma, Earl S.; Johnson, Ronald C.; Carlton, Barry; Andrade, Naleen N.; Nishimura, Stephanie T.; Goebert, Deborah; Yuen, Noelle Y. C.; Wegner, Eldon L.; Makini, George K.; Nahulu, Linda B.; Else, Iwalani R. N.; Chang, Janice Y.

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“…86 Hishinuma et al found family support, friends’ support, and number of relatives frequently seen to be protective against depression among AAs and NHPIs in Hawaii; as friends’ support increased, depressive symptoms decreased, except for Hawaiians. 88 Juang and Cookston found that higher levels of family obligation were associated with fewer depressive symptoms among Chinese American adolescents; increasing family obligation behaviors were associated with decreasing depressive symptoms over time. 89 Park (2009) found that parental care is negatively associated with depression among Korean adolescents, 90 and Qin et al found that family cohesion is protective of depression among Chinese adolescents.…”

Section: Question 4: What Protective Factors Exist To Buffer the Effementioning

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Risk Factors of Suicide and Depression among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Youth: A Systematic Literature Review

Wyatt¹,

Ung²,

Park³

et al. 2015

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Suicide has become an increasing public health challenge, with growing incidence among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) youth. Using an ecological framework, the purpose of this systematic review was to explicate risk and protective factors for depression or suicide among AA and NHPI youth from available peer reviewed research. The ecological framework provides a useful blueprint for translating social determinants of health to explain the experience of depression and suicidal behaviors among AA and NHPI youth. Sixty-six studies were extracted from PsychInfo, Ovid Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Web of Science. Policy and practice recommendations are offered in light of relevant themes that emerged. Further research and data disaggregation is needed to develop and strengthen population health strategies, interventions, and policies that address the underlying social conditions and cultural contexts of mental health disparities associated with depression and suicide among AA and NHPI youth.

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Section: Question 4: What Protective Factors Exist To Buffer the Effementioning

confidence: 99%

Risk Factors of Suicide and Depression among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Youth: A Systematic Literature Review

Wyatt¹,

Ung²,

Park³

et al. 2015

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“…Lastly, as with adolescents from other ethnic and racial groups, peer influence has been cited as one of the strongest influences on Asian girls’ decisions to use substances (Adhikari, Chen, & Ahijevych, 2002; Iwamoto et al, 2011; Kim et al, 2002; National Asian Women’s Health Organization, 2000). Despite the seemingly detrimental effect of peer influence, however, literature has suggested that family support and parent-child attachment can override peer influence and protect adolescents from substance use (Au & Donaldson, 2000; Hahm, Lahiff, & Guterman, 2003; Hishinuma et al, 2004; Kim et al, 2002), indicating that substance use among Asian American adolescent girls may be prevented by increasing parental support and strengthening parent-child relationships.…”

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Two-year outcomes of a randomized, family-based substance use prevention trial for Asian American adolescent girls.

Fang¹,

Schinke²

2013

Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

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Asian Americans have been largely ignored in the prevention outcome literature. In this study, we tested a parent-child program with a sample of Asian American adolescent girls and their mothers, and evaluated the program’s efficacy on decreasing girls’ substance use, and modifying risk and protective factors at individual, family, and peer levels. One hundred and eight Asian American mother-daughter dyads recruited through online advertisements and from community service agencies were randomly assigned to an intervention arm (n = 56) or to a test-only control arm (n = 52). The intervention consisted of a nine-session substance abuse prevention program, delivered entirely online. Guided by family interaction theory, the prevention program aimed to strengthen the quality of girls’ relationships with their mothers while increasing girls’ resilience to resist substance use. Intent-to-treat analyses showed that at 2-year follow-up, intervention-arm dyads had significantly higher levels of mother-daughter closeness, mother-daughter communication, maternal monitoring, and family rules against substance use compared to the control-arm dyads. Intervention-arm girls also showed sustained improvement in self-efficacy and refusal skills, and had lower intentions to use substances in the future. Most important, intervention-arm girls reported fewer instances of alcohol and marijuana use, and prescription drug misuse relative to the control-arm girls. The study suggests that a culturally generic, family-based prevention program was efficacious in enhancing parent-child relationships, improving girls’ resiliency, and preventing substance use behaviors among Asian American girls.

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“…Missing from the literature on overt aggression are studies that include sizable numbers of Hispanic adolescents and we know very little about symptom levels of aggression among this group. Including Hispanic adolescents in this body of research is particularly important given that previous research has found that ethnicity is the best predictor of school-related outcomes such as conduct infractions (Hishinuma et al 2004). …”

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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in Adolescents

McLaughlin

Hilt

Nolen–Hoeksema

2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

333

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The prevalence of most adult psychiatric disorders varies across racial/ethnic groups and has important implications for prevention and intervention efforts. Research on racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of internalizing and externalizing symptoms and disorders in adolescents has been less consistent or generally lacking. The current study examined the prevalence of these symptom groups in a large sample of sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in which the three major racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. (White, Black, and Hispanic/Latino) were well-represented. Hispanic females reported experiencing higher levels of depression, anxiety, and reputational aggression than other groups. Black males reported the highest levels of overtly aggressive behavior and also reported higher levels of physiologic anxiety and disordered eating than males from other racial/ethnic groups. Hispanic females also exhibited higher levels of comorbidity than other racial/ethnic groups. KeywordsRacial/ethnic differences; Adolescence; Anxiety; Depression; Eating pathology; Aggression Racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of symptoms of depression (Blazer et al. 1994;Kessler et al. 1994), anxiety (Brown et al. 1990), and eating disorders (Striegel-Moore et al. 2003) have been documented in a number of studies utilizing adult samples. There has been substantially less work examining racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of psychopathology in adolescents. Large epidemiologic studies of adolescent psychopathology have typically not focused on racial/ethnic group differences in symptoms or have not included substantial numbers of ethnic minorities. For example, in the Oregon Adolescent Depression Project (Lewinsohn et al. 1993) over 90% of participants were White. Similarly, in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study the vast majority of participants were White (e.g., McGee et al. 1990). Understanding racial/ethnic differences in psychopathology is important for the identification of at-risk groups and targets for prevention efforts, improvement of mental health services, and as a first step in understanding the mechanisms by which risk factors confer vulnerability to psychopathology differentially on various segments of the population.The research that has been conducted examining race/ethnicity differences in adolescent psychopathology has yielded inconsistent findings about differences in the prevalence of symptoms of depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and aggression. Some studies document significant group differences (e.g., Roberts and Chen 1995;Austin and Chorpita 2004) while others have reported no differences in symptoms across groups (e.g., Cole et al. 1998).Correspondence to: Katie A. McLaughlin, katie.mclaughlin@yale.edu. Another explanation for disparate findings in studies comparing rates of symptoms in different racial/ethnic groups involves the inclusion of children and adolescents from different age groups (e.g., Kistner et al. 2003;Ollendick et al. 1996). The prevalence of inte...

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Demographic and Social Variables Associated with Psychiatric and School-Related Indicators for Asian/Pacific-Islander Adolescents

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

Risk Factors of Suicide and Depression among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Youth: A Systematic Literature Review

Risk Factors of Suicide and Depression among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Youth: A Systematic Literature Review

Two-year outcomes of a randomized, family-based substance use prevention trial for Asian American adolescent girls.

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms in Adolescents

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