Identifying Critical Points of Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms from Childhood to Young Adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Depression is a common mental illness and research has focused on late childhood and adolescence in an attempt to prevent or reduce later psychopathology and/or social impairments. It is important to establish and study population-averaged trajectories of depressive symptoms across adolescence as this could characterise specific changes in populations and help identify critical points to intervene with treatment. Multilevel growth-curve models were used to explore adolescent trajectories of depressive symptoms in 9301 individuals (57% female) from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a UK based pregnancy cohort. Trajectories of depressive symptoms were constructed for males and females using the short mood and feelings questionnaire over 8 occasions, between 10 and 22 years

SUBMITTER: Kwong ASF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6441403 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature