Join us for the upcoming FIU-RCMI Journal Club, Prevalence of Mental Disorders from Adolescence Through Early Adulthood in American Indian and First Nations Communities, facilitated by Dr. Amanda Hunter. 

Indigenous communities lack representation in psychiatric epidemiology despite disproportionate exposure to risk factors. This paper documents the cumulative and 12-month prevalence of psychiatric disorders across the early life course among a sample of Indigenous young adults and compare prospective and retrospective reporting of lifetime mental disorders. This community based participatory research includes data from 735 Indigenous people from 8 reservations/reserves. Trends in early life course psychiatric disorders in this study with Indigenous participants highlight cultural variations in psychiatric epidemiology including surprisingly low rates of internalizing disorders in the face of risk factors, disproportionately high rates of early-onset and lifetime SUD, and lower rates of past-year SUD in early adulthood compared with prior research.

The meeting will be held virtually; Zoom login information will be provided upon RSVP.