New York’s mental health crisis during COVID-19 pandemic impacting people of color at higher rates (Accord: estimates)

[Aeran]

Interesting report.

https://www.amny.com/news/new-yorks-...-rates-report/

It’s not surprising that the physical and economic suffering caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been coupled with a dramatic increase in anxiety and depression among many New Yorkers over the last year.

But a report released Monday by the New York State Health Foundation found that communities of color seem to be suffering the worst from the pandemic’s mental trauma — revealing yet another tragic disparity during the health crisis.

[ckhthankgod]

^Similar instances have not only been occurring not just in NY, but across the country to some degree. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heal...al-disparities

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/vie...id-19-pandemic

[Lillie767]

I think the headline is click bait compared to the actual report from the Foundation.

The link says "According to the foundation, 42% of Hispanic New Yorkers and 39% of Black New Yorkers reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depression during the previous week. That’s higher than the rate of poor mental health among whites (36%) and Asian New Yorkers (31%). "

I would not consider 39% statistically different from 36%. In fact, the actual Foundation report says that: ""Confidence intervals are not provided with the estimates. Although we attempted to improve the reliability of estimates by developing estimates based on multiple time frames of the survey, readers should interpret the precision of the estimates with caution, particularly those for subgroups of the New York State population. "
https://nyshealthfoundation.org/wp-c...york-state.pdf

Without statistical margins of error noted, the only conclusion comfortably drawn from this information is that people who identify as Hispanic reported higher levels of anxiety and/or depression than people who self-identified as white or Asian.

People who were identified as bi- or multiracial were excluded from the study. Also, the sample size was less than 2000 people overall.

https://nyshealthfoundation.org/wp-c...york-state.pdf