Divergent decennial trends in mental health according to age reveal poorer mental health for young people: repeated cross-sectional population-based surveys from the HUNT Study, Norway.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Public health trends are formed by political, economic, historical and cultural factors in society. The aim of this paper was to describe overall changes in mental health among adolescents and adults in a Norwegian population over the three last decades and discuss some potential explanations for these changes.

Design

Repeated population-based health surveys to monitor decennial changes.

Setting

Data from three cross-sectional surveys in 1995-1997, 2006-2008 and 2017-2019 in the population-based HUNT Study in Norway were used.

Participants

The general population in a Norwegian county covering participants aged 13-79 years, ranging from 48 000 to 62 000 000 in each survey.

Main outcome measures

Prevalence estimates of subjective anxiety and dep

SUBMITTER: Krokstad S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9119156 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature