Childhood Lifestyle Behaviors and Mental Health Symptoms in Adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Mental health problems often arise during adolescence and early adulthood, affecting up to 25% to 30% of young people. Enhancing the ability to identify children and adolescents at increased risk of mental health problems and uncover factors that promote mental health from childhood to adolescence is important.

Objective

To investigate if cumulative lifestyle behaviors from childhood to adolescence are associated with perceived stress and depressive symptoms in adolescence.

Design, setting, and participants

Prospective cohort study in Finland using baseline data collected between October 2007 and November 2009 and 8-year follow-up data collected between December 2015 and December 2017 as part of the Physical Activity and Nutrition in Children (PANIC) study

SUBMITTER: Haapala EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11829227 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature