While politicians make decisions Have direct effects On Keep the public healthyThe new research by Emuri University highlights how the welfare of policy makers can also have indirect effects.
A study Some of the potential effects of mental health related to the current political climate published in social science and medicine were reviewed in January. Previous research It has been suggested that coverage of politicians ‘actions and media outlets’ events could have a permanent impact on national political news viewers.
From the fall of 2023 to the spring 2024, the authors of this dissertation – Albani consisted of researchers at Emuri, University, and Northern Arizona University – surveyed 148 Georgian women between 18 and 40 years. He expressed several questions to the participants to guess how much political events caused them tension, plus how much anxiety, depression and overall tension.
Finally, the authors found a fellowship between the growing stress and the symptoms of three mental health measures. Stephanie Ek, Assistant Professor of Emory’s Rollins School of Public Health and Paper, said the dissertation is permanent With other research This shows that these symptoms are often beyond the consequences of the presidential election.
“Even when this is not an election season, I think it is important to understand the source of stress about political climate,” he said.
The study participants were just surveyed, so the authors could not determine what was the cause of the negative health effects of health. In addition, most participants have received a college degree, identified as liberal, and live in the Metro Atlanta region – it is difficult to know if these trends are valid in all the women of Georgia.
One of the national issues and his colleagues said that there could be a particularly stress for women’s mental health. Decide to eliminate national abortion reservations. He is made with the order, Georgia Six weeks of abortion banThe authors are required to monitor the mental health of women in the state, as one of the reasons.
“As someone who lives here, a woman of reproductive age, it seems that many restrictions on abortion access are important,” he said.
It was asked to comment on this study, Frank Sloan, a Professor of Health Policy and Administration at the Duke Global Health Institute, said in an e -mail that relatively small numbers of women who had politically identified conservatives or did not hold a college degree are difficult to determine.
Sloan added that if the authors had examined, it would be helpful whether the results of mental health have changed before and after the 2024 presidential elections.
The future studies must be removed in future studies, and they would like to see their group or others following a study that, over time, looks for women’s health with political engagement. But he said the results appear to be in accordance with the observations of other researchers on the subject.
Since primary care can be displayed by doctors to normal stress, anxiety and depression, one said that the study may be demanding to look for these symptoms in reproductive women.
And as federal legislative measures are moving forward, which can further hurt some of Georgia’s inhabitants, such as a plan to cut Hundreds of billions of dollars from public health care servicesOne said that when available, people must be active about the pursuit of mental health treatment.
“Even if we can’t reduce some political pressure … perhaps we can reduce some of the results of mental health through current resources.”
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