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National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month highlights the stark disparities in mental health care access and outcomes ...
A forward-looking session at Safety 2025 urges construction leaders to address suicide, substance use, and mental health ...
A version of this article appears in print on June 20, 2025, Section A, Page 21 of the New York edition with the headline: ‘Addictive’ Technology Use Can Put Youth Mental Health at Risk.
To be clear, "discrimination hurts everybody," Read added. "Whether you're white, Black, male or female, the effects of the discrimination on mental well-being are taxing." ...
The study did not offer much insight into why Black Americans are about 20% more likely than white Americans to experience serious mental health problems, including schizophrenia and depression.
A new study at Ohio State University and Duke University finds that Black men and women experiencing mental health disorders are at higher risk for arrest than white American adults. "Across really ...
Analyzing social media using artificial intelligence may pick up signals of depression in white Americans but not in Black counterparts, according to a study that highlights the risk of training ...
Historically, Black teens were thought to be more insulated from suicide risk than their white peers. But experts caution this is no longer the case, with rates of suicide in this racial group ...
More Black youths had higher odds of receiving a high aggression risk behavioral health flag compared with White youths (19.8% vs 9.8%, respectively; adjusted OR [AOR], 1.71; 95% CI, 1.24-2.35).