Poverty and birth cohort effects of experiencing the 2007 –2009 Great Recession during adolescence on major depressive episodes and mental health treatment of young adults in the United States

ConclusionFindings support the hypothesis that exposure to the Great Recession during adolescence may have increased risk for MDE, but raise questions about whether the mechanism of this association is economic distress.
Source: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research