Mentorship in adolescence and subsequent depression and adiposity among child maltreatment survivors in a United States nationally representative sample.

ABSTRACT: Child maltreatment (CM) is associated with multiple adverse health outcomes. Hence, there is a great need to identify factors that promote resilience in CM survivors. Mentorship may promote positive coping in CM survivors, but this may vary by health outcome and mentor/mentee characteristics. Among participants in a United States nationally representative sample, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, who retrospectively reported any CM before age 18 (sexual, emotional or physical, abuse or neglect; N = 3364), we examined associations between mentorship during adolescence and body mass index (BMI), obesity, and depressive symptoms at ages 24-32 (in 2008-2009). We utilized linear regression and predictive margins with complex sample weighting. Models were stratified

SUBMITTER: Cammack AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10032646 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature