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Psychosocial Factors and Chronic Illness as Predictors for Anxiety and Depression in Adolescence

2020

Adolescence is a challenging time when emotional difficulties often arise. Self-esteem, good relationships with peers, and emotional competences can buffer the effects of these difficulties. The difficulties can be even greater when coupled with the presence of a chronic physical illness (CD). Our goal is to analyze psychosocial factors and CD as predictors for anxiety and depression. It was compared the results of structural equation models (SEM) with models based on qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to analyze the possible influence of these variables on levels of anxiety-depression in adolescents with and without CD. The sample consisted of 681 adolescents, between 12 and 16 years o…

lcsh:BF1-990Context (language use)Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale050105 experimental psychologyStructural equation modeling03 medical and health sciencesstructural equation models0302 clinical medicinemedicinePsychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesDepression (differential diagnoses)General PsychologyQualitative comparative analysisadjustment05 social sciencesStrengths and Difficulties QuestionnaireBrief Research Reportqualitative comparative analysislcsh:PsychologyAdolescents PsicologiaadolescentAnxietymedicine.symptomPsychologyPsychosocial030217 neurology & neurosurgerychronic illnessClinical psychology
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2018

ObjectivesYoung age at school entry (ASE) for students has been related to their impaired mental health in higher grades. To avoid the negative health consequences of young ASE, preschool examinations and individual school entry deferral for young children are routinely performed by some school authorities. We aimed to investigate whether ASE was associated with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-related symptoms in pupils attending schools using a selective school enrolment procedure.DesignProspective open cohort study with baseline assessments at school entry and two follow-ups in the second and fourth grades.SettingUp to 128 Rudolf Steiner Schools (Waldorf Schools) located w…

medicine.medical_specialtybusiness.industryConfoundingGeneral MedicineStrengths and Difficulties Questionnairemedicine.diseaseMental healthlanguage.human_languageGerman03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineEpidemiologymedicinelanguageAttention deficit hyperactivity disorder030212 general & internal medicinebusinessProspective cohort study030217 neurology & neurosurgeryCohort studyClinical psychologyBMJ Open
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