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Mental health advocate Mike King brews a hazy pale ale which will be sold to raise money for charity I Am Hope.
Connectedness with family, friends and school can help prevent depression in Pacific youth, a new study has found.
The research article, published on Friday in the Journal of Affective Disorders, looked at the relationship between risk factors and specific symptoms of depression in Pacific people aged 17 years.
“These findings highlight the importance of family, friends, and school connectedness for good mental health amongst young people in New Zealand’s Pacific communities,” AUT University PhD student Lisa Gossage, who published the article, said.
The study uses a method called psychological network analysis, which looks at depression at the symptom level, rather than measuring it as a single construct.
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