Community violence and internalizing mental health symptoms in adolescents: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Purposes

Mental disorders are responsible for 16% of the global burden of disease in adolescents. This review focuses on one contextual factor called community violence that can contribute to the development of mental disorders OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the impact of community violence on internalizing mental health symptoms in adolescents, to investigate whether different proximity to community violence (witness or victim) is associated with different risks and to identify whether gender, age, and race moderate this association.

Methods

systematic review of observational studies. The population includes adolescents (10-24 years), exposition involves individuals exposed to community violence and outcomes consist of internalizing mental health symptoms. Selection, extraction and

SUBMITTER: Miliauskas CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8994919 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature