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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank me to the cdc data person. I was wondering: the depressed states look like a list of states with a lot of white people. Are white children more depressed than Asian or Black or Hispanic children?[/quote]

In the 2013-2019 data sets, depression rates are not consistently different between race/ethnicities if you control for rural/suburban (except that American Indian youth have very high depression and suicide rates).  A few of the studies do show White youth with higher depression rates though depending on the particular survey, but those are often ones that haven't controlled for rurality.
Some studies show Asian-American youth have lower depression, but this doesn't always hold when you control for other factors like rurality (there are comparatively few Asian Americans living in rural areas) and also there are some studies (not part of this data set) that suggest that the lower depression rates in Asian American youth may be obscured by the fact that they may be more likely to report mental health concerns as physical symptoms (e.g., stomach ache, headache, fatigue, loss of appetite) perhaps because there is more of a cultural stigma associated with mental health concerns than physical concerns in their community.

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