Physical racial attack sharply raises rates of depression and psychosis.

Evidence

Studies of racism and health found that those reporting to have experienced some form of physical racial attack had a prevalence of depression almost three times higher, and a prevalence of psychosis almost five times higher, than that of ethnic minority people reporting no harassment (Karlsen and Nazroo 2002). In the same study, the prevalence of psychosis was 57% higher among ethnic minority people who — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 318

Categorization

• SHARE: A concrete statistic worth sending to anyone working on racial health disparities — depression ~3x and psychosis ~5x after physical attack.
• XREF: connects to: Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 318; Racism exposure independently raises risk of mental disorder and psychosis. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 319; Racial harassment triples depression risk and quintuples psychosis prevalence — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 313 (+2 more)

Related

• Racial harassment triples depression risk and quintuples psychosis prevalence (similarity 0.93)
• Racism exposure independently raises risk of mental disorder and psychosis. (similarity 0.90)
• Racial discrimination causally damages mental and physical health. (similarity 0.89)
• Racism harms health through internalization, physiological stress, and direct violence. (similarity 0.87)
• Racism harms health even when not personally directed, because it targets shared group characteristics. (similarity 0.84)
• Fear of racism harms mental health more than direct experiences of it do. (similarity 0.83)
• Racialization shortens minority life expectancy even when incident harm is rare. (similarity 0.82)
• Racial discrimination produces measurable biological and physiological damage (similarity 0.82)
• Adult racism exposure damages the health of children. (similarity 0.81)
• Mere fear of racism harms health more widely than racist encounters themselves do. (similarity 0.80)
• Racism harms health even without personal victimhood because it targets group identity (similarity 0.80)
• Ethnic health inequalities stem from racism, not ethnicity itself. (similarity 0.79)
• Vicarious exposure to racism harms children’s socio-emotional development (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Racial harassment triples depression risk and quintuples psychosis prevalence #expands (0.92) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 313
• Racism exposure independently raises risk of mental disorder and psychosis. #corroborates (0.90) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 319
• Racial discrimination causally damages mental and physical health. #expands (0.85) — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 321
• Racial discrimination produces measurable biological and physiological damage #expands (0.80) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 317