2253 - Social Patterning of Racial Discrimination Among a Diverse Sample of School-Aged Children in Australia | Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Objective To examine the prevalence of young childrens’ reported experiences of racial discrimination and to assess whether discriminatory experiences vary by gender, religion and country of birth. Methods Data came from Speak Out Against Racism (SOAR), a cross-sectional study of 4664 public school students in grades 5–9 in two Australian states in 2017. An adaption of the Adolescent Discrimination Distress Index (ADDI), as a measure of discrimination, was used across four Indigenous and eth...