Impressive Charmander

INFO 2950 Project

• In this project we aim to understand the extent, if any, of a relationship between four demographic factors and mental health using data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive’s Mental Health Client-Level Data from 2020. For purposes of data analysis we will group anxiety and depressive disorders together, as well as trauma and schizophrenic disorders together, as these are related mental health disorders. Furthermore we will focus specifically on race, education, substance abuse, and veteran status as identifying demographic factors.

• These are the research questions we are investigating:

  • What demographic factors are most influential in the diagnosis of the mental health disorders of anxiety and/or depression disorder, and trauma and/or schizophrenia?

  • Does there exist an interaction between race, education, substance abuse, veteran status, that influences an individual’s mental health diagnosis?

• The results of our hypothesis tests indicated that a higher proportion of veterans have anxiety/depression and trauma/schizophrenia than non-veterans. In terms of race, a higher proportion of underrepresented minorities have trauma/schizophrenia than non-underrepresented minorities. However, there was no difference in the proportion of underrepresented minorities and non-underrepresented minorities with anxiety/depression.