Factors associated with chronic depressive symptoms across adolescence and young adulthood: a UK birth cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Identifying children and/or adolescents who are at highest risk for developing chronic depression is of utmost importance, so that we can develop more effective and targeted interventions to attenuate the risk trajectory of depression. To address this, the objective of this study was to identify young people with persistent depressive symptoms across adolescence and young adulthood and examine the prospective associations between factors and persistent depressive symptoms in young people.

Methods

We used data from 6711 participants in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Depressive symptoms were assessed at 12.5, 13.5, 16, 17.5, 21 and 22 years with the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire, and we further examined the influence of multiple biological, p

SUBMITTER: Durdurak BB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11362687 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature