Impact of health behaviours and deprivation on well-being in a national sample of English young people.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the modifiable factors influencing well-being in boys and girls by accounting for deprivation, ethnicity and clustering within local authorities.

Methods

We used data from a very large nationally representative survey, the What About Youth study involving 120 115 adolescents aged 15 years. Our outcome measure of mental well-being was the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS). Potential explanatory factors included substance abuse, screen time, eating habits, reading, bullying, sleeping pattern, physical activity and area-level deprivation. We ran unadjusted and adjusted multilevel models for each explanatory factor, after adjusting for ethnicity, deprivation and including a random effect for the local authority.

Results

Boys had a hi

SUBMITTER: Gireesh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6241972 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature