Religious doubts and mental health in adolescence and young adulthood: The association with religious attitudes

Background: There is increasing evidence that parental determinants of offspring early life development begin well before pregnancy. Objectives: We established the Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort Study (VIHCS) to examine the contributions of parental mental health, substance use and socioeconomic characteristics before pregnancy to child emotional, physical, social, and cognitive development. Population: Men and women were recruited from the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort (VAHCS), an existing cohort study beginning in 1992 that assessed a representative sample of 1943 secondary school students in Victoria, Australia, repeatedly from adolescence (Wave 1, mean age 14 years) to adulthood (Wave 10, mean age 35 years). Methods: VAHCS participants with children born between 2006 and 2013 were recruited to VIHCS, and invited to participate during trimester three, at 2 months postpartum, and one year postpartum. Parental mental health, substance use and socioeconomic characteristics were assessed repeatedly throughout; infant characteristics were assessed postnatally and in infancy. Data will be supplemented by linkage to routine datasets. A further follow-up is underway as children reach eight years of age.Preliminary results: Of the 1307 infants born to VAHCS participants between 2006 and 2013, 1030 were recruited to VIHCS. At VIHCS study entry, 18% of recruited parents had preconception common mental disorder in adolescence and young adulthood, 18% smoked daily in adolescence and young adulthood, and 6% had not completed high school. Half of VIHCS infants were female (48%), 4% were from multiple births, and 7% were preterm (<37 weeks gestation). Conclusions: VIHCS is a prospective cohort of 1030 children with up to nine waves of preconception parental data, and three waves of perinatal parental and infant data. These will allow examination of continuities of parental health and health risks from the decades before pregnancy to offspring childhood, and the contributions of exposures before pregnancy to offspring outcomes in childhood.

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Adolescents’ Emotion Regulation Strategies Questionnaire: Initial Validation and Prospective Associations With Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Other Mental Health Problems in Adolescence and Young Adulthood in a Swedish Youth Cohort

Frontiers in Psychiatry ◽

10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00462 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

Author(s):

Ya Zhou ◽

Daiva Daukantaitė ◽

Lars-Gunnar Lundh ◽

Margity Wångby-Lundh ◽

Adam Ryde

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

Young Adulthood ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Health Problems ◽

Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽

Initial Validation ◽

Self Injury ◽

Regulation Strategies ◽

Adolescence And Young Adulthood

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Where’s the need?: the use of specialist mental health services in adolescence and young adulthood

10.33612/diss.116938522 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Dennis Raven

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Health Services ◽

Health Services ◽

Young Adulthood ◽

Adolescence And Young Adulthood

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An Exploration of Facilitators and Challenges to Young Adult Engagement in a Community-Based Program for Mental Health Promotion

Global Qualitative Nursing Research ◽

10.1177/2333393620922828 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 ◽

pp. 233339362092282

Author(s):

Anne Marie Creamer ◽

Jean Hughes ◽

Nicole Snow

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Young Adulthood ◽

Mental Health Center ◽

Health Issues ◽

Community Based ◽

Health Concerns ◽

Mental Health Issues ◽

Canadian City ◽

Trauma Informed ◽

Adolescence And Young Adulthood

Adolescence and young adulthood can be particularly daunting for those with mental health concerns. In one Canadian city, a community-based drop-in psychosocial mental health center (Center) was designed specifically for youth who self-identified as struggling with mental health issues. The purpose of this study was to identify the features of the program that promoted or discouraged engagement. Narrative inquiry was used to guide the project. One-on-one interviews were conducted with 10 Center users. Four major categories were identified: (a) Reasons for Coming: Motivated to Work on Goals; (b) Facilitators of Engagement and Beyond; (c) Challenges to Engagement; and (d) Benefits of Engaging: Finding My Way. These categories were further delineated into themes. All participants had experienced trauma, and the Center assisted them in their coping. The researchers believe that to aid recovery, agencies working with this population need to use trauma-informed and healing-centered engagement.

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Father absence and trajectories of offspring mental health across adolescence and young adulthood: findings from a UK-birth cohort

10.1101/2021.08.25.21262549 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Iryna Culpin ◽

Hein Heuvelman ◽

Dheeraj Rai ◽

Rebecca M Pearson ◽

Carol Joinson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Early Childhood ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Young Adulthood ◽

Middle Childhood ◽

Early Adulthood ◽

Father Absence ◽

Biological Father ◽

Adolescence And Young Adulthood ◽

Present Group

Background: High prevalence of parental separation and resulting biological father absence raises important questions regarding its impact on offspring mental health across the life course. However, few studies have examined prospective associations between biological father absence in childhood and risk of offspring depression and depressive symptoms trajectories across adolescence and young adulthood. We specifically examined whether these relationships vary by sex and the timing of exposure to father absence (early or middle childhood). Methods: This study is based on up to 8,409 children from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Participants provided self-reports of depression (Clinical Interview Schedule-Revised) at age 24 years and depressive symptoms (Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire) between the ages of 10 and 24 years. Biological father absence in childhood was assessed through maternal questionnaires at regular intervals from birth to 10 years. We used logistic regression to examine the association between biological father absence and depression/depressive symptoms at age 24. We estimated the association between biological father absence and trajectories of depressive symptoms using multilevel growth-curve modelling. Results: Early but not middle childhood father absence was strongly associated with increased odds of offspring depression and greater depressive symptoms at age 24 years. Early childhood father absence was associated with higher trajectories of depressive symptoms during adolescence and early adulthood compared with father presence. Differences in the level of depressive symptoms between middle childhood father absent and father present groups narrowed into early adulthood. Girls whose father was absent in early childhood, compared with present, manifested higher levels of depressive symptoms throughout adolescence, but this difference narrowed by early adulthood. In contrast, boys who experienced father absence in early childhood had similar trajectories of depressive symptoms compared to the father present group but experienced a steep increase in early adulthood. Girls whose fathers were absent in middle childhood manifested higher trajectories across middle adolescence into young adulthood compared to the father present group. Conclusions: We found evidence that father absence in childhood is persistently associated with offspring depression in adolescence and early adulthood and that this relationship varies by sex and timing of father's departure. Further research is needed to examine whether this relationship is causal and to identify mechanisms that could inform preventative interventions to reduce the risk of depression in children who experience father absence.

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