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Mental Health Better in Brit Indian Kids Than Brit Whites
Anna Goodman, the report's lead author from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says: "Most research into ethnic differences focuses on issues where minority ethnic groups are doing worse than average. We believe it is also important to investigate areas where minority groups have an advantage, and use this understanding as a way to improve the health of the whole population".
To reach the conclusion, researchers used data from the 1999 and 2004 British Child and Adolescent Mental Health Surveys, which took a nationwide sample of 5-16 year olds living in England.
The proportion of Indian children with any mental health disorder was 3.7 percent, the lowest of any major ethnic group and substantially lower than the 10.0 percent proportion in White children.
This Indian mental health advantage was driven by Indian children having fewer behavioral problems (e.g. aggressive or antisocial behaviour) and fewer hyperactivity problems.
This pattern was reported by parents, teachers and children alike, suggesting that it reflects a real difference and is not the result of chance or biased reporting.
Part of the Indian mental health advantage was explained by the fact that Indian children were more likely to live in two parent families and had higher academic abilities.Most of the advantage, however, was not explained by the major known risk factors. In addition, Indian children did not show the strong socio-economic gradient in behavioral and hyperactivity problems, which was observed in Whites.
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