Childhood Adversity and Mental Health Outcomes Among University Students: A Longitudinal Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental health concerns are common among university students and maybe elevated among those with specific risk exposures. The study examined the association between childhood adversities and mental health outcomes among undergraduate university students and assessed whether psychosocial and behavioral factors mediate those associations.

Methods

The Queen's University Student Well-Being and Academic Success Survey identified two large cohorts of first-year undergraduate students entering university in Fall 2018 and 2019 (n = 5,943). At baseline, students reported sociodemographic information, family-related mental health history, childhood physical abuse, sexual abuse, peer bullying, and parental separation or divorce. Baseline and follow-up surveys in Spring

SUBMITTER: Bhattarai A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10408556 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature