Area disadvantage and mental health over the life course: a 69-year prospective birth cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Existing evidence on the mental health consequences of disadvantaged areas uses cross-sectional or longitudinal studies with short observation periods. The objective of this research was to investigate this association over a 69-year period.

Methods

Data were obtained from the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD; the British 1946 birth cohort), which consisted of 2125 participants at 69 years. We assessed longitudinal associations between area disadvantage and mental health symptoms at adolescence and adulthood with use of multilevel modelling framework.

Results

After adjustment for father's social class, for each one percentage increase in area disadvantage at age 4, there was a 0.02 (95% CI 0.001, 0.04) mean increase in the total score of the

SUBMITTER: Bakolis I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10097760 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature