Adolescent health and subsequent risk of self-harm hospitalisation: a 15-year follow-up of the Young-HUNT cohort

Junker, Asbjørn; Bjørngaard, Johan Håkon; Bjerkeset, Ottar

doi:10.1186/s13034-017-0161-8

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“…Although the prevalence of loneliness varies with age, mainly due to the fact that an individual's social needs will shift over the course of life, its association with depression remains stable during the life course (Cacioppo et al, 2010). Children and adolescents who experience loneliness are often also at risk for anxiety and suicidality (Gallagher et al, 2014;Junker et al, 2017).…”

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Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Norwegian Adolescents’ Mental Health From 2014 to 2018: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study

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Background: Adolescents' mental health, and its consistent relationship with their socioeconomic background, is a concern that should drive education, health, and employment policies. However, information about this relationship on a national scale is limited. We explore national overall trends and investigate possible socioeconomic disparities in adolescents' mental health, including psychological distress and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and loneliness in Norway during the period 2014-2018. Methods: The present study builds on data retrieved from five waves of the national cross-sectional Ungdata survey (2014-2018). In total 136,525 upper secondary school students (52% girls) completed the questionnaire during the study period. Trends in socioeconomic inequalities were assessed using the Slope Index of Inequality (SII) and the Relative Index of Inequality (RII). Results: The prevalence of students with moderate to high symptoms score and mean symptoms scores of psychological distress (in terms of symptoms of depression, anxiety, and loneliness) increased among girls and boys during 2014-2018, with girls showing higher rates. Our results suggest distinct, but stable, inequalities between socioeconomic groups, both in absolute and relative terms, among girls and boys during the study period. Conclusion: Rising rates of adolescents' psychological distress, particularly among girls, may have long-term consequences for individuals involved and the society as a whole. Future studies should investigate the causes of these results. We did not find evidence of any change in inequalities in adolescents' mental health between socioeconomic groups, suggesting current strategies are not sufficiently addressing mental health inequalities in the adolescent population and therefore a significant need for research and public health efforts.

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Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Norwegian Adolescents’ Mental Health From 2014 to 2018: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study

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“…Self-harm causes a great health expenditure and loss for health care resource [6]. It is associated with numerous somatic diseases [7], in particular, with mental or psychiatric diseases such as depression and anxiety [2,8]. Within the lifecourse, self-harm is more prevalent when it comes to puberty [9].…”

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Gender differences in self-harm and drinking behaviors among middle school students in Beijing, China

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Background: Self-harm and drinking were both serious problems in adolescents and many studies presented evidence of their association. However, gender difference in this association was seldom deeply discussed. Our study was aimed to evaluate the prevalence of self-harm and explore its association with drinking behaviors by gender and investigate the extent to which the gender differences exist in the association between self-harm and drinking.Methods: A total of 32362 students in grades 7 to 12 were anonymously surveyed using two-stage, stratified probability proportion sampling in Beijing, China. Self-harm, drinking behaviors and other basic information were obtained from anonymous questionnaire. Demographic variables and indicators of self-harm as well as drinking behaviors were analyzed with chi-square test and Gamma test between genders and the gender difference in this association was analyzed by log-binomial regression. Results: The total prevalence of self-harm was 13.7% with no significant gender difference (B=0.352, P=0.553). The prevalence of self-harm decreased with age in girls (G=-0.163, P<0.001). Self-harm was associated with drinking behaviors in both boys and girls. The Log-binomial regression demonstrated that girls in 15-19 years were at lower risk of self-harm than girls in 10-14 years while no age difference in boys. The higher OR for self-harm was found among girls with early drinking experiences compared with boys (1.863 vs 2.565). Girls who ever drunk (1.636 vs 2.211), were currently drinking (2.122 vs 3.400) and binge drinking (3.924 vs 6.357) had greater risk for self-harm than boys. Gender differences in self-harm were found at the following reasons of drinking, feeling down (4.402 vs 5.742), customary chronic drinking (3.945 vs 5.460), feeling delighted (1.806 vs 2.615), drinking with peers (1.797 vs 2.693). Conclusion: Self-harm has significant positive association with drinking among middle school students and girls with drinking behaviors were at higher risk of suffering self-harm. Identifying adolescents’ drinking behaviors is of vital importance to self-harm prevention and special attention should be focused on younger girls.

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“…Self-harm causes a great health expenditure and loss for health care resource [6]. It is associated with numerous somatic diseases [7], in particular, with mental or psychiatric diseases such as depression and anxiety [5,8]. Within the lifecourse, self-harm is the most prevalent when it comes to puberty [9].…”

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“…Some studies about suicide also supported that it was the heavy academic burden that resulted in the high suicide prevalence in Chinese [18] or in Asian American [19]. An 'iceberg model' is often raised to describe the situation of suicide, so is the self-harm, which is recognized as a 'hidden behavior': less than 13% of the self-harm episodes led to hospital presentation [2,7,15]. 55.8% of the subjects who had committed self-harm in a cohort study did not refer to mental health services [8].…”

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Gender differences in self-harm and drinking behaviors among high school students in Beijing, China

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Background Self-harm and drinking were both serious problems in adolescents and many studies presented evidence of their association. However, gender differences in this association was seldom deeply discussed. Our study was aimed to evaluate the prevalence of self-harm and explore its association with drinking behaviors by gender and investigate the extent to which the gender differences exist in the association between self-harm and drinking. Methods A total of 32362 students in grades 7 to 12 were anonymously surveyed and included in our study using two-stage, stratified probability proportion sampling in Beijing, China. Self-harm, drinking behaviors and other basic information were obtained from anonymous questionnaire. Demographic variables, self-harm as well as drinking behaviors were analyzed with Chi-square test and Gamma test between genders and the gender differences in this association was analyzed by log-binomial regression. Results The total prevalence of self-harm was 13.7% with no significant gender difference (=0.352, P=0.553). The prevalence of self-harm decreased with age in girls (G=-0.163, P<0.001). Self-harm was associated with drinking behaviors in both boys and girls. The Log-binomial regression demonstrated that girls in 16-19 years were at lower risk of self-harm than girls in 12-15 years while this association was weaker in boys (1.493 vs 1.128). The higher OR for self-harm was found among girls with early drinking experiences compared with boys (2.565 vs 1.863). Girls who ever drunk (2.211 vs 1.636), were currently drinking (3.400 vs 2.122) and binged drinking (6.357 vs 3.924) were of greater risk for self-harm than boys. Conclusion Self-harm has significant positive association with drinking among high school students and girls with drinking behaviors were at higher risk of suffering self-harm. Identifying adolescents’ drinking behaviors is of vital importance to self-harm prevention and special attention should be focused on younger girls.

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Adolescent health and subsequent risk of self-harm hospitalisation: a 15-year follow-up of the Young-HUNT cohort

Cited by 19 publications

References 51 publications

Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Norwegian Adolescents’ Mental Health From 2014 to 2018: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study

Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Norwegian Adolescents’ Mental Health From 2014 to 2018: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study

Gender differences in self-harm and drinking behaviors among middle school students in Beijing, China

Gender differences in self-harm and drinking behaviors among high school students in Beijing, China

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