Trajectories of mental health across the primary to secondary school transition.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescence is a period of profound developmental change during which the prevalence of mental health problems starts to increase. It also typically coincides with a school transition. Understanding mental health trajectories through school transition is important to inform interventions to support young people's mental health during this period.

Methods

In a longitudinal study with three assessment points spaced six months apart spanning the transition from primary (T1 = end of primary school [Year 6]) to secondary school (T2 = beginning of the first year secondary school [Year 7]; T3 = end of first year of secondary school [Year 7]) we carried out a latent class growth analysis of symptoms of common mental health problems. Young people (mean age at baseline of 1

SUBMITTER: Donaldson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11889646 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature