Depression In America

The following study looked at newly and legally admitted immigrants the the United States. Previous study have shown that immigrants do experience depression after living for a certain period of time in the receiving country. The findings of this research have shown that as time increases, the possibility of becoming depressed also increases. Different variables, such as age, marital status, gender, and so on were looked. This study confirmed that individuals who immigrate to another country are at high risk of depression due to problems that they may encounter in the host country.

Immigrating to another country has been a popular process done by many for centuries. One of the main reason why people leave their home country is to find
A lot of studies have also placed more importance on first vs second generation immigrants’ risk for depression. These studies produced significant information on the prevalence of depression across multiple generations of immigrants; however, there is not much known about factors that are specifically related to psychological problems of first generations immigrants. Moreover, a large amount of studies on first-generation immigrants were only on refugees. In a study conducted by Eunice Wong and Jeremy Miles, it was found that the longer immigrants stayed in the host country, their chance of depression increased. The sample of immigrants in this study were new to the country and lived in the United States for short period of time; the length of of stay in the receiving country and the probability of depression was still positively correlated. The findings of the study supports past research that found that immigrants’ mental health risk increase as time goes
13,546 immigrants were used as sample and 5305 did the survey. Information from the Office of Immigration Statistics about new immigrants were acquired every month. After being admitted as a legal and permanent resident, interviews were done with the immigrants in person or through phone. The immigrants were interviewed using the language they desired; over 75 different languages was put into practice. Percentage of use: English (47.5 %), Spanish (30.5 %), Russian (4.2%), Korean (6.5%), Indian (7.1%), other (4.2%). Bilingual experts translated the interviews, which were done by either interviewers who spoke the language that was in used or teams of interpreters. The participants originated from all over the world. Information about all immigrants were obtained, which was their gender and age, whether they were married or not, and how long they have been living in the United States. NAIS-2004 information on certain contextual factors such as whether immigrants were exposed to political violence or the type of visa they had were used to analyzed contextual factors pertaining to immigration. The type of visa immigrants had was used to determine the possible reason for immigrating. Immigrants had a refugee visas, employment visas, and