Sex/gender differences in individual and joint trajectories of common mental health symptoms in early to middle adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early to middle adolescence is a critical period of development for mental health issues. Illuminating sex/gender differences in mental health trajectories in this period is important for targeting screening and preventive interventions; however, evidence to date on the extent and nature of sex/gender differences in common mental health issue trajectories in this period has produced mixed findings. There is a particular gap in our knowledge of sex/gender differences in the joint trajectories of commonly co-occurring mental health issues in adolescence, given the strong tendency for mental health issues to co-occur.

Method

We applied sex/gender-stratified latent class growth analysis to an age-heterogeneous cohort (age 10-15) derived from the population-representat

SUBMITTER: Murray AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10242831 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature