Psychological Distress Among Youth Probationers: Using Social Determinants of Health to Assess Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors

Quinn, Camille R.; Liu, Chang; Kothari, Catherine L.; Cerulli, Catherine; Thurston, Sally W.

doi:10.2174/2210676607666170317143345

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“…Our recommendations center on systematic screening and monitoring for emergent suicidality throughout community supervision. We also echo ( 48 ) who articulate that cultural and gender specific interventions are warranted especially when suicide risk is viewed through a social determinants of health lens. A research and related practice gap includes understanding the needs of gang involved youth on supervision, as these youth may have intensive probation for violence or gun-related charges and are seven times more likely to have suicide attempts than non-violent-offense youth ( 39 ).…”

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Equitable suicide prevention for youth impacted by the juvenile legal system

Meza

Snyder²,

Shanholtz³

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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Suicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents in the United States. Despite the already alarmingly high rates of suicide attempts among adolescents, youth involved in the juvenile legal system (JLS) are up to three times more likely to have suicide attempts than their peers not impacted by the JLS. This public health crisis is also a matter of health equity, knowing that ethnoracially minoritized youth, mainly Black and Latinx youth, have disproportionate contact with the JLS. In order to disrupt the current elevated rates of suicide among Black and Latinx youth involved in the JLS, there needs to be more concerted efforts to improve assessment and suicide prevention efforts in the JLS. There are various potential touch points of care for suicide prevention and the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM), which outlines community-based responses to the involvement of people with mental and substance use disorders in the criminal justice system, can be used as a strategic planning tool to outline possible equitable interventions across these various touch points. Our purpose is to provide a comprehensive picture of gaps and equitable opportunities for suicide prevention across each intercept of the SIM. We provide recommendations of priorities to promote health equity in suicide prevention for ethnoracially minoritized youth impacted by the JLS.

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Equitable suicide prevention for youth impacted by the juvenile legal system

Meza

Snyder²,

Shanholtz³

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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“…To address a wide range of health outcomes and risks, the SDOH framework can be categorized into five groups [15], including 1) economic stability (e.g., employment, income, medical bills, food security), 2) education access and quality (e.g., literacy, early childhood education, language), 3) health care access and quality (e.g., health coverage, provider availability, quality of care), 4) neighborhood and built environment (e.g., transportation, parks, walkability), and 5) social and community context (e.g., social integration, support system, stress). A large body of research investigated psychological distress applying the SDOH framework across different countries and cultures [16][17][18][19][20]. However, little research has focused on social determinants of psychological distress across different racial/ethnic groups in the US during the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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The association between social determinants of health and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: a secondary analysis among four racial/ethnic groups

Luo

Jeong

et al. 2022

BMC Public Health

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Background Racial disparities in psychological distress associated with COVID-19 remain unclear in the U.S. This study aims to investigate the associations between social determinants of health and COVID-19-related psychological distress across different racial/ethnic groups in the US (i.e., non-Hispanic Whites, Hispanic, non-Hispanic Asians, and non-Hispanic African Americans). Methods This study used cross-sectional data from the 2020 California Health Interview Survey Adult Data Files (N = 21,280). Adjusting for covariates—including age, gender, COVID-19 pandemic challenges, and risk of severe illness from COVID-19—four sets of weighted binary logistic regressions were conducted. Results The rates of moderate/severe psychological distress significantly varied across four racial/ethnic groups (p < 0.001), with the highest rate found in the Hispanic group. Across the five domains of social determinants of health, we found that unemployment, food insecurity, housing instability, high educational attainment, usual source of health care, delayed medical care, and low neighborhood social cohesion and safety were associated with high levels of psychological distress in at least one racial/ethnic group (p < 0.05). Conclusion Our study suggests that Hispanic adults face more adverse social determinants of health and are disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Public health practice and policy should highlight social determinants of heath that are associated with different racial/ethnic groups and develop tailored programs to reduce psychological distress.

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“…Consequently, the present study aims to describe the prevalence and severity of trauma history and its associated adverse health outcomes among young African American women, using a social determinants of health lens. The social determinants framework highlights the interplay among multiple factors, and how socio-economic and political contexts are associated with health disparities [27]. It is vital to understand trauma history and its relationship to other social determinants, such as substance use, sexual health, and mental health, as they may be key outcomes of trauma exposure [28,29].…”

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Association of Trauma History with Current Psychosocial Health Outcomes of Young African American Women

Xu,

Choi,

Capasso

et al. 2024

Youth

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African American women have a higher likelihood of experiencing lifetime trauma compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Trauma exposure may be associated with higher substance misuse and greater adverse sexual and mental health outcomes. This study expands upon previous empirical findings to characterize the effect of trauma history on substance use, sexual health, and mental health among young African American women. This study included 560 African American women aged 18–24 years in Atlanta, Georgia. Trauma history was defined as having ever experienced a traumatic event based on the Traumatic Events Screening Inventory (TESI). Relative to women not reporting a trauma history and controlling for age, education, and employment, women who experienced trauma were over 2.5 and 2.3 times, respectively, more likely to report alcohol misuse and marijuana misuse. They were 3.0 times more likely to experience peer normative pressure for substance use. Women who experienced trauma were 2.1 times more likely to have multiple sex partners, 2.9 times more likely to have peer norms for risky sex, 1.8 times more likely to perceive barriers to using condoms with sex partners, 2.1 times more likely to report lower communication frequency about sex, 2.0 times more likely to report lower self-efficacy for refusing sex, and 1.9 times more likely to report less relationship control. Women with a trauma history were also 5.0 times more likely to have experienced intimate partner violence, 2.1 times more likely to report high depression symptomatology, 4.0 times more likely to report high overall stress, 3.2 times more likely to have worse coping skills, and 1.8 times more likely to have poor emotional regulation. Findings suggest that trauma history may increase myriad adverse psychosocial health outcomes. Screening for trauma history may help inform the provision of services. Intensified TESI screenings may help identify a history of trauma and assist in identifying adverse health outcomes.

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Psychological Distress Among Youth Probationers: Using Social Determinants of Health to Assess Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors

Cited by 5 publications

References 59 publications

Equitable suicide prevention for youth impacted by the juvenile legal system

Equitable suicide prevention for youth impacted by the juvenile legal system

The association between social determinants of health and psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic: a secondary analysis among four racial/ethnic groups

Association of Trauma History with Current Psychosocial Health Outcomes of Young African American Women

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