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- Title
Immigrant Parent Legal Status and Children's Health in the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latino Youth (SOL Youth).
- Authors
Potochnick, Stephanie; Mikkelsen, Ian; Gallo, Linda C.; Isasi, Carmen R.; Gonzalez II, Franklyn; Perreira, Krista M.
- Abstract
We assess how immigrant parent legal status shapes children's physical and mental health. Using the Hispanic Community Health Study of Latino Youth—a multi-site dataset—we evaluated mean differences in multiple physical and mental health indicators and parents' and children's stress and resilience by parents' (primarily mothers') legal status (N = 1177). We estimated regression models of two overall child health outcomes—allostatic load and any internalized disorder. Average allostatic load was 28% higher (0.36 standard deviations) and average prevalence of any internalizing disorder was 16% points greater for children of foreign-born unauthorized versus US-born parents. Higher levels of socioeconomic and acculturative stress contributed to children of foreign-born unauthorized parents' heightened health risk, while resilience factors—parental health and familial support—protected their health. Children with unauthorized immigrant parents experience both negative physical and mental health outcomes that can have potential long-term costs.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CHILDREN'S health; COMMUNITY health services; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; STATISTICAL correlation; LEGAL status of parents; HEALTH status indicators; MENTAL health; ACCULTURATION; CENTER for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; DATA analysis; HISPANIC Americans; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; LOGISTIC regression analysis; EVALUATION of medical care; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; INTERNALIZING behavior; DISEASE prevalence; RELATIVE medical risk; LEGAL status of undocumented immigrants; SURVEYS; STATE-Trait Anxiety Inventory; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; FAMILY support; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; COMPARATIVE studies; DATA analysis software; REGRESSION analysis
- Publication
Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health, 2024, Vol 26, Issue 3, p461
- ISSN
1557-1912
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10903-023-01573-3