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Economic volatility in childhood and subsequent adolescent mental health problems: a longitudinal population-based study of adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of the current paper was to investigate the association between the patterns of duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to low family income during childhood, and symptoms of mental health problems in adolescence.

Setting

Survey administered to a large population-based sample of Norwegian adolescents.

Participants

Survey data from 9154 participants of 16-19?years age (53% participation rate; 52.7% girls) were linked to registry-based information about childhood family income from tax return data.

Outcome measures

Mental health outcomes were symptoms of emotional, conduct, hyperactivity, peer problems and general mental health problems measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, symptoms of depression measured with Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire and symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) measured with the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale.

Results

Latent class analysis and the BCH approach in Mplus were used to examine associations between patterns of poverty exposure and mental health outcomes. Four latent classes of poverty exposure emerged from the analysis. Participants moving into poverty (2.3%), out of poverty (3.5%) or those chronically poor (3.1%) had more symptoms of mental health problems (Cohen's d=16-.50) than those with no poverty exposure (91.1%). This pattern was, however, not found for symptoms of ADHD. The pattern of results was confirmed in robustness checks using observed data.

Conclusions

Exposure to poverty in childhood was found to be associated with most mental health problems in adolescence. There was no strong suggestion of any timing or sequencing effects in the patterns of associations.

SUBMITTER: Boe T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5623474 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Economic volatility in childhood and subsequent adolescent mental health problems: a longitudinal population-based study of adolescents.

Bøe Tormod T Skogen Jens Christoffer JC Sivertsen Børge B Hysing Mari M Petrie Keith J KJ Dearing Eric E Zachrisson Henrik Daae HD

BMJ open 20170918 9

<h4>Objective</h4>The aim of the current paper was to investigate the association between the patterns of duration, timing and sequencing of exposure to low family income during childhood, and symptoms of mental health problems in adolescence.<h4>Setting</h4>Survey administered to a large population-based sample of Norwegian adolescents.<h4>Participants</h4>Survey data from 9154 participants of 16-19 years age (53% participation rate; 52.7% girls) were linked to registry-based information about ...[more]

PMID: 28928191

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Dataset Information

Economic volatility in childhood and subsequent adolescent mental health problems: a longitudinal population-based study of adolescents.

Objective

Setting

Participants

Outcome measures

Results

Conclusions

Publications

Economic volatility in childhood and subsequent adolescent mental health problems: a longitudinal population-based study of adolescents.

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