The educational burden of disease: a cohort study

Nordmo, Magnus; Kinge, Jonas Minet; Reme, Bjørn‐Atle; Flatø, Martin; Surén, Pål; Wörn, Jonathan; Magnus, Per; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Torvik, Fartein Ask

doi:10.1016/s2468-2667(22)00059-7

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“…While known and perfectly measured confounders can be controlled, unknown and unmeasured confounders cannot. Additionally, the correlation between EA and mental health might also be explained by reverse causation, as early onset of psychiatric symptoms may hamper subsequent school attendance and performance 6 . Randomized experiments in which education is altered would avoid bias due to confounding or reverse causation, but experiments at the required scale are not feasible for practical and ethical reasons.…”

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Evaluating the causal relationship between educational attainment and mental health

Demange

Boomsma

Bergen

et al. 2023

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We investigate the causal relationship between educational attainment (EA) and mental health using two research designs. First, we compare the relationship between EA and seventeen psychiatric diagnoses within sibship in Dutch national registry data (N = 1.7 million), controlling for unmeasured familial factors. Second, we use two-sample Mendelian Randomization, which uses genetic variants related to EA or psychiatric diagnosis as instrumental variables, to test whether there is a causal relation in either direction. Our results suggest that lower levels of EA causally increase the risk of MDD, ADHD, alcohol dependence, GAD and PTSD diagnoses. We also find evidence of a causal effect in the opposite direction for ADHD. Additionally, we find inconsistent results for schizophrenia, anorexia nervosa, OCD, and bipolar disorder, highlighting the importance of using multiple research designs to understand the complex relationship between EA and mental health.

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Evaluating the causal relationship between educational attainment and mental health

Demange

Boomsma

Bergen

et al. 2023

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“…This is important, because people do not choose their partners based on one phenotype at a time but holistically. We build upon the well-established links between educational attainment and health 5,6 and investigate assortative mating patterns within and between these interconnected phenomena in population-wide data. This provides insight into the clustering of different disadvantages within families.…”

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Non-random Mating Patterns in Education, Mental, and Somatic Health: A Population Study on Within- and Cross-Trait Associations

Torvik,

Sunde,

Cheesman

et al. 2023

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Partners resemble each other on many traits, such as health and education. The traits are usually studied one by one in data from established couples and with potential participation bias. We studied all Norwegian parents who had their first child between 2016 and 2020 (N=187,926) and the siblings of these parents. We analysed grade point averages (GPA), educational attainment (EA), and medical records with prospective diagnostic data on 10 mental and 10 somatic health conditions measured 10 to 5 years before childbirth. We found stronger partner similarity in mental (median r=0.14) than in somatic health conditions (median r=0.04), with ubiquitous cross-trait correlations for mental health conditions (median r=0.13). GPA correlated 0.43 and EA 0.47 between partners. High GPA or EA was associated with better mental (median r=-0.16) and somatic (median r=-0.08) health in partners. Elevated correlations for mental health (median r=0.25) in established couples indicated convergence. Analyses of data on siblings and in-laws revealed deviations from direct assortment, suggesting instead indirect assortment based on related traits. GPA and EA accounted for 30-40% of the partner correlations in health. This has implications for the distribution of risk factors among children and for studies of intergenerational transmission.

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“…More than 10 percent of Norwegian experience mental health problems (Reneflot et al, 2018). These young people are at risk of negative developmental trajectories, including decreased quality of life, poor mental and somatic health, social and academic difficulties, school absenteeism and drop-out, and subsequent exclusion from social and working life (Caspi et al, 2016; Gubbels, van der Put, & Assink, 2019; Nordmo et al, 2022). It is imperative to prevent such negative life-course trajectories.…”

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Study Protocol for a Research and Development Project: Optimizing a Unified Parent Training Intervention to Prevent Child Mental Health Problems and Neglect

Toemmeraas¹,

Backer-Grondahl²,

Arnesen³

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This protocol describes a research and development (R&D) project aimed at optimizing a targeted, preventive, efficacious, and tailored intervention called Supportive Parents Coping Kids (SPARCK). Combining recent developments in basic and intervention research, the goal of this project is to develop, test and optimize a unified parent training intervention targeting children who display externalizing and internalizing symptoms and parents who are at risk of exhibiting maladaptive or neglectful parenting behaviors. We plan to utilize various design-based research methodologies to investigate what works for whom in which context, points which are essential to the innovation process, by employing a mixed methods research design and an iterative optimization process of testing and refinement. Furthermore, we introduce a cocreation process for SPARCK to involve relevant stakeholders working in Norwegian frontline services for children and their families to ensure that the intervention adheres to the needs and constraints encountered by these stakeholders and thereby promote the scalability and sustainable implementation of SPARCK. In this paper, we present the theoretical and methodological background of this approach to R&D in the field of mental health prevention as well as the operationalization of innovative methodology in the current project. This R&D approach aims to produce new knowledge concerning individual change mechanisms in parent training interventions and stakeholder feedback pertaining to intervention components and implementation strategies, all of which are imperative for the iterative SPARCK design process.

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The educational burden of disease: a cohort study

Cited by 19 publications

References 27 publications

Evaluating the causal relationship between educational attainment and mental health

Evaluating the causal relationship between educational attainment and mental health

Non-random Mating Patterns in Education, Mental, and Somatic Health: A Population Study on Within- and Cross-Trait Associations

Study Protocol for a Research and Development Project: Optimizing a Unified Parent Training Intervention to Prevent Child Mental Health Problems and Neglect

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