Research from the Australian National University finds that eliminating everyday discrimination could halve the burden of psychological distress among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults
abc.net.au/news/anu-study-reveals-racism-distress-amongst-first-nations-peoples/101751930New research from the Australian National University has found that everyday discrimination could be contributing to up to half of the burden of psychological distress among Indigenous Australians.The study analysed around 10,000 stories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults
"If we think about racial discrimination, that equates to 74,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, where all their high psychological distress could be attributable," he said. Just over two-thirds of respondents reported that they had these particular experiences of discrimination."As an Aboriginal person these experiences that we ask about in the Mayi Kuwayu study, a lot of them resonate to me and my family in terms of our history and also what we experience on a day-to-day basis," he said.
"We take the difference in high psychological distress in the non-Indigenous population and Indigenous population and looked at how much the gap would decrease if we removed racism as [an] explainer of that gap," he said. "We know that almost 50 per cent of people have a personal experience [with racism] and that is just in a confrontation with others," he said.
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