Table 2.
Weighted Prevalence of Lifetime and Twelve-Month Psychiatric Disorders among African American vs. U.S. and Foreign Born Caribbean Black Men in the National Survey of American Life, 2001–2003.
| DSM-IV Disorder | Lifetime DSM-IV Disorders | Twelve-Month DSM-IV Disorder | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| African American | Caribbean Black | African American | Caribbean Black | |||
| U.S. Born n = 1222 | U.S. Born n = 176 | Foreign Born n = 461 | U.S. Born n = 1222 | U.S. Born n = 176 | Foreign Born n = 461 | |
| Weighted % (SE) | Weighted % (SE) | |||||
| Anxiety Disorders | ||||||
| Agoraphobia | 1.7 (0.5) a | -- a | 2.1 (1.1) b | 0.7 (0.3) a | -- b | 0.3 (0.3) a,b |
| Post-traumatic Stress Disorder | 5.1 (0.7) | 15.9 (7.4) | 4.3 (1.9) | 2.4 (0.5) a | 14.4 (6.4) b | 3.0 (1.8) a |
| Social Phobia | 6.8 (0.8) | 8.8 (3.3) | 5.7 (2.5) | 3.3 (0.6) | 5.2 (3.8) | 5.0 (2.5) |
| General Anxiety Disorder | 2.9 (0.7) | 4.4 (3.2) | 2.1 (0.8) | 1.3 (0.4) | 3.4 (3.1) | 1.6 (0.8) |
| Panic Disorder | 2.5 (0.6) | 11.5 (7.4) | 1.7 (0.6) | 1.5 (0.4) a | 9.7 (7.7) b | 1.0 (0.5) a,b |
| Panic Attack | 17.2 (1.6) a | 37.2 (8.9) b | 17.7 (4.8) a | 5.4 (0.7) a | 29.6 (10.3) b | 6.4 (4.0) a |
| Any Anxiety Disorder | 13.6 (1.3) a | 30.5 (5.8) b | 12.8 (3.9) a | 6.7 (1.0) a | 23.2 (5.9) b | 9.0 (4.2) a |
| Mood Disorders | ||||||
| Major Depressive Disorder | 8.8 (0.9) a | 21.1 (6.5) b | 8.9 (2.8) a,b | 4.6 (0.7) a | 16.4 (5.6) b | 4.9 (1.7) a |
| Dysthymia | 2.7 (0.5) | 8.0 (5.8) | 1.7 (0.9) | 1.9 (0.5) a,b | 7.6 (5.9) a | 0.9 (0.8) b |
| Bipolar Disorder I, II | 2.3 (0.5) a | 0.9 (0.5) b | 1.0 (0.5) a,b | 1.7 (0.5) a | 0.2 (0.2) b | 0.9 (0.5) a,b |
| Any Mood Disorder | 9.9 (1.0) | 21.4 (8.2) | 9.3 (2.8) | 5.1 (0.7) a | 16.5 (8.2) b | 5.3 (2.3) a |
| Substance Disorders | ||||||
| Alcohol Abuse ‡ | 15.9 (1.1) a | 32.6 (8.0) b | 6.7 (2.3) c | 3.7 (0.7) | 13.9 (9.2) | -- |
| Alcohol Dependence ‡ | 5.4 (0.7) a,b | 10.5 (5.2) a | 3.0 (2.6) b | 1.9 (0.5) | 5.1 (3.8) | 0.1 (0.1) |
| Drug Abuse ‡ | 10.4 (1.1) a,b | 19.7 (8.1) a | 4.0 (2.5) b | 1.6 (0.5) | 8.5 (5.7) | 0.2 (0.2) |
| Drug Dependence ‡ | 4.1 (0.8) a,b | 6.9 (3.5) a | 3.2 (2.6) b | 1.3 (0.4) | 0.8 (0.5) | -- |
| Any Substance Disorder | 18.4 (1.3) a | 33.1 (7.9) b | 7.3 (2.3) c | 4.4 (0.7) a | 15.0 (9.0) a | 0.3 (0.2) b |
| Any of the Above Disorders | 30.5 (1.5) a | 52.5 (8.2) b | 19.6 (4.1) c | 12.2 (1.1) a | 38.5 (9.2) b | 11.1 (3.6) a |
| 2 or More of Above Disorders | 17.0 (1.2) a | 35.9 (9.2) b | 9.7 (3.5) c | 5.8 (0.7) a,b | 16.6 (8.3) a | 4.3 (2.2) b |
Subscripts (a, b, c) indicate pairwise comparison results using multivariate logistic regressions. Groups with different subscripts are significantly different from each other. For example, African American men have significantly lower rates of Major Depressive Disorder compared to U.S. born Caribbean Black men as they do not share a subscript. However, both groups share a subscript with the foreign born Caribbean Black men indicating that the rates are not significantly different at the p < 0.05 level. No subscript indicates that there are no significant differences in the rate of disorder across the three groups. -- unable to estimate prevalence estimate because there were zero cases that met the disorder criteria. ‡ Multivariate pairwise comparisons of ethnic differences in the specific twelve-month prevalence rates were not conducted due to the small samples of Caribbean Black men. SE—standard error.