Cohort study reveals financial strain associates with depressive and anxiety disorders regardless of income, indicating perceived stress drives current psychiatric symptoms.
Financial strain was associated with having a depressive and/or anxiety disorder, above the effect of income. Healthcare and social services should be alert to this association, even for higher income households. However, financial strain and income were not related with 4-year onset/recurrence of depressive and/or anxiety disorders.
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