Deportation worries fuel anxiety, poor sleep, among US-born Latinx youth

(University of California - Berkeley) A new study led by University of California, Berkeley, researchers tracked the mental and physical health of US-born teenage children of Mexican and Central American immigrants in California in the years before and after the 2016 election. Nearly half of the youth reported worrying at least sometimes about the impacts of US immigration policy on their families, and those with more worries also experienced higher anxiety and poorer sleep quality than their peers.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://bit.ly/2Y96Juj