Changes in millennial adolescent mental health and health-related behaviours over 10 years: a population cohort comparison study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is evidence that mental health problems are increasing and substance use behaviours are decreasing. This paper aimed to investigate recent trends in mental ill health and health-related behaviours in two cohorts of UK adolescents in 2005 and 2015.

Methods

Prevalences in mental health (depressive symptoms, self-harm, anti-social behaviours, parent-reported difficulties) and health-related behaviours (substance use, weight, weight perception, sleep, sexual intercourse) were examined at age 14 in two UK birth cohorts; Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC, N = 5627, born 1991-92) and Millennium Cohort Study (MCS, N = 11 318, born 2000-02). Prevalences and trend estimates are presented unadjusted and using propensity score matching and entropy

SUBMITTER: Patalay P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6904321 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature