A study on bilingual Pacific mothers in New Zealand show they're less likely to be affected by mental health disorders, than Pacific mothers who only speak English.
The study is called Pacific and English language fluency and mental disorder symptom indications among Pacific mothers in New Zealand, and was published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health.
It utilised data collected from the Pacific Islands Families study - a study that tracked over 1,200 babies born in the year 2000 at Middlemore Hospital.
Sela Jane Hopgood has more.
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