Prevention of Childhood Adversities and Children's Common Mental Disorders and School Grades.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Adversity during childhood can limit children's chances of achieving their optimal developmental and psychological outcomes. Well-designed observational studies might help identify adversities that are most implicated in this, thereby helping to identify potential targets for developing interventions.

Objective

To compare the association between preventing childhood poverty, parental mental illness and parental separation, and the population rate of offspring common mental disorders (ages 16-21 years) or average school grades (age 16 years).

Design, setting, and participants

A population-based, longitudinal cohort study using Swedish registries was conducted. A total of 163 529 children born in Sweden between January 1, 1996, and December 31, 1997, were fol

SUBMITTER: Pierce M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10556962 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature