Mental health problems and suicidal behavior from adolescence to young adulthood in college: linking two population-based studies.

ABSTRACT: It is well established that mental health problems are highly recurrent and persistent from childhood to adolescence, but less is known to what extent mental health problems also persist from adolescence into young adulthood. The aim of the current study was therefore to examine the chronicity and risk of mental health problems and suicidality from adolescence to young adulthood. Data stem from two Norwegian population-based studies conducted 6 years apart; the youth@hordaland study from 2012 (age 16-19) and the SHoT2018 study (age 22-25). These two data sources were linked to produce a longitudinal sample of 1257 individuals. A wide range of self-reported mental health and suicidality instruments (used both continuously and categorically) were analyzed using log-link binomial regression a

SUBMITTER: Sivertsen B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10869414 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature