Family deaths in the early life course and their association with later educational attainment in a longitudinal cohort study.
Bereavement
Family death
Health disparities
Life course
Mortality
Population health
Social determinants of health
Structural racism
Journal
Social science & medicine (1982)
ISSN: 1873-5347
Titre abrégé: Soc Sci Med
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8303205
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2023
09 2023
Historique:
received:
22
12
2022
revised:
11
07
2023
accepted:
06
08
2023
pmc-release:
01
09
2024
medline:
7
9
2023
pubmed:
19
8
2023
entrez:
18
8
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Due to structural racism and pathways between racism and health, Black and Native American people die at younger ages than white people. This means that those groups are likely to experience deaths of family members at younger ages. Evidence is mixed about whether family deaths affect educational attainment. We aim to 1) estimate the prevalence of family deaths by age and race 2) estimate the effect of a family death on later educational attainment and 3) analyze whether the effect of a family death varies by age, socioeconomic status, gender, and race. The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a nationally representative sample of U.S. adolescents in grades 7-12 at baseline in 1994-1995. Add Health has a large and racially diverse sample and records family deaths across the entire life course starting from birth. Participants were included in this analysis if they reported their educational attainment in Wave IV (N = 14,796). The racial group with the lowest proportion experiencing a sibling or parent death in the first 23 years of their lives was white participants (11.7%), followed by Asian (12.5%), Hispanic (15.0%), Black (24.3%) and Native American participants (30.3%). In adjusted models, those who experienced a family death had 0.60 times the odds (95% CI 0.51-0.71) of achieving a bachelor's degree compared to those without a family death. Mother deaths, father deaths, and sibling deaths were each harmful for obtaining a college degree and their effects were similar in magnitude. The age range when the effect of a family death was strongest was 10-13 years old (OR = 0.52 95% CI 0.40-0.67). The effect of a family death on college degree attainment did not vary by baseline parent education, participant sex, or race/ethnicity.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37595424
pii: S0277-9536(23)00518-X
doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116161
pmc: PMC10529887
mid: NIHMS1925635
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
116161Subventions
Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : P30 AG066613
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : R24 HD041023
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : U01 AG071448
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P2C HD041023
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : U01 AG071450
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : T32 HD095134
Pays : United States
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P01 HD031921
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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