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Lillian Polanco-Roman1,2, Gabe H Miller3, Sasha Zhou4
1Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, New York, New York, USA.
Objective:
We examined the state-level association between legislation prohibiting the instruction of race and racism [i.e., Critical Race Theory (CRT) bans] in higher education and past-year suicidality.
Method:
Participants (N = 95,561;72% female; 61% non-Hispanic white) were college students from the 2023-2024 wave of the Healthy Minds Study. Two-way fixed effects logistic regression models were estimated adjusting for student and college characteristics.
Results:
Students in states that passed CRT bans, compared to students in states that did not, had significantly higher odds of past-year suicidality even after accounting for student and college characteristics (aOR = 1.057; 95%CI = 1.016, 1.100, p < .05). Both student race and college status (i.e., Minority Serving Institution) independently moderated this relationship.
Conclusion:
Identifying systems-level risk and protective factors associated with suicidality may offer new opportunities for multi-level suicide prevention strategies to promote well-being among college students.
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