Distinct profiles of mental health need and high need overall among New Zealand adolescents - Cluster analysis of population survey data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective was to identify clinically meaningful groups of adolescents based on self-reported mental health and wellbeing data in a population sample of New Zealand secondary school students.

Methods

We conducted a cluster analysis of six variables from the Youth19 Rangatahi Smart Survey (n = 7721, ages 13-18 years, 2019): wellbeing (World Health Organization Well-Being Index), possible anxiety symptoms (Generalized Anxiety Disorder 2-item, adapted), depression symptoms (short form of the Reynolds Adolescent Depression Scale) and past-year self-harm, suicide ideation and suicide attempt. Demographic, contextual and behavioural predictors of cluster membership were determined through multiple discriminant function analysis. We performed cross-validation an

SUBMITTER: Sutcliffe K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11308291 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature