Social inequalities in mental disorders and substance misuse in young adults : A birth cohort study in Southern Brazil.
Fernando Celso Lopes Fernandes de BarrosAlicia MatijasevichIná S SantosBernardo L HortaBruna Gonçalves C da SilvaTiago N MunhozSeena FazelAlan SteinRebecca M PearsonLuciana AnselmiLuis Augusto RohdePublished in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2018)
The high rates of mental disorders and lifetime suicide attempts in young adults, especially those who were always poor or became poor after childhood, suggest that recent socioeconomic-related stressful situations may have a higher impact on the current mental health than events earlier in life. However, we could not identify at what specific ages socioeconomic changes were more important.