The impact of public assistance on child mental health in Japan: results from A-CHILD study

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作者：
Yuna Koyama
Takeo Fujiwara
Aya Isumi
Satomi Doi
Manami Ochi
机构：
[1] Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU),Department of Global Health Promotion
[2] Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciene,Department of Health and Welfare Services
[3] National Institute of Public Health,Department of Social Medicine
[4] National Center for Child Health and Development,undefined
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Journal of Public Health Policy | 2021年 / 42卷
关键词：
Child poverty; Public assistance; Mental health; Propensity-score matching; School refusal;
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Public assistance is one option for providing a safety net to protect the health of children, but assistance may also generate feelings of shame that impact self-esteem. This study aims to elucidate the impact of public assistance on child mental health. We used cross-sectional data on 6920 first graders from the Adachi Child Health Impact of Living Difficulty (A-CHILD) study. We found children living in relative poverty had more behavioral problems, low resilience, and were likely to refuse to go to school. After propensity-score matching among low-income households, the likelihood of children refusing to go to school was larger in the families receiving assistance as compared to non-recipients (OR 4.00, 95% CI 0.85–18.84) although there were no significant differences between recipients and non-recipients in low-income households. Our study produced insufficient evidence to indicate that social assistance is associated with child mental health, resilience, or school refusal.
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