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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS ZaR0xxpL. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Study objective : To examine the association between neighbourhood income inequality and depression, both overall and among those with different levels of income, in the post-disaster context. Design : A representative cross sectional random digit dial telephone survey was conducted. Setting : New York City (NYC) six months after September 11,2001. Participants : 1570 respondents were interviewed, of whom 1355 provided residence information permitting their inclusion in this analysis. Past six month depression was assessed using a lay administered instrument consistent with DSM-IV criteria. Income inequality was measured with the Gini coefficient. Main results : The sample was demographically representative of NYC (56.2% female, 35.7% white, 6.3% Asian 24.2% African American, 29.7% Hispanic, and 4.2% other race or ethnicity) and the prevalence of past six month depression was 12.4%. In a final adjusted model, neighbourhood level income inequality was positively associated with depression but this association was not significant (bêta=7.58, p=0.1). However, among those with low individual income (
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