School achievement as a predictor of depression and self-harm in adolescence: linked education and health record study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mental disorders in children and adolescents have an impact on educational attainment. Aims To examine the temporal association between attainment in education and subsequent diagnosis of depression or self-harm in the teenage years.

Method

General practitioner, hospital and education records of young people in Wales between 1999 and 2014 were linked and analysed using Cox regression.

Results

Linked records were available for 652 903 young people and of these 33 498 (5.1%) developed depression and 15 946 (2.4%) self-harmed after the age of 12 but before the age of 20. Young people who developed depression over the study period were more likely to have achieved key stage 1 (age 7 years) but not key stage 2 (age 11) (hazard ratio (HR) = 0.79, 95% CI 0.74-0.84

SUBMITTER: Rahman MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7557863 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature