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Delayed school progression and mental health problems in adolescence: a population-based study in 10,803 adolescents

BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence suggests that several adult mental disorders, particularly psychoses, are preceded by impairments in cognitive function, reflected in scholastic underachievement. This study investigates the association between scholastic underachievement and general mental health p...

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Autores principales: Tempelaar, Wanda M, Otjes, Christiaan P, Bun, Clothilde J, Plevier, Carolien M, van Gastel, Willemijn A, MacCabe, James H, Kahn, René S, Boks, Marco PM
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4177435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25217816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-014-0244-5
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author Tempelaar, Wanda M
Otjes, Christiaan P
Bun, Clothilde J
Plevier, Carolien M
van Gastel, Willemijn A
MacCabe, James H
Kahn, René S
Boks, Marco PM
author_facet Tempelaar, Wanda M
Otjes, Christiaan P
Bun, Clothilde J
Plevier, Carolien M
van Gastel, Willemijn A
MacCabe, James H
Kahn, René S
Boks, Marco PM
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description BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence suggests that several adult mental disorders, particularly psychoses, are preceded by impairments in cognitive function, reflected in scholastic underachievement. This study investigates the association between scholastic underachievement and general mental health problems in adolescence, using delay in school progression as a marker of poor scholastic performance. METHOD: Cross-sectional secondary school survey comprising 10,803 adolescents. Participants completed the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to assess mental health problems. The association of delayed school progression with the SDQ was investigated using logistic regression with SDQ as outcome and delayed school progression as primary exposure of interest while adjusting for socio-demographic characteristics, adverse life events, school-related factors, risk taking behaviour, healthy lifestyle and physical health. RESULTS: Unadjusted analysis showed an association between delayed school progression and total mental health problems (OR 1.83, 95% CI 1.27 – 2.63) in adolescents. After adjusting for other risk factors (socio-demographic factors and life events) in a logistic regression model the association between delayed school progression en mental health problems was attenuated (OR 1.33, 95% CI 0.86 – 2.05). CONCLUSION: Delayed school progression is associated with general mental health problems in adolescence, but this relationship is heavily confounded by other factors. A causal relationship between impaired cognitive function such as poor scholastic performance and general mental health at adolescence is less likely and delayed school progression may merely be considered an indicator of risk for mental health problems. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-014-0244-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-41774352014-09-29 Delayed school progression and mental health problems in adolescence: a population-based study in 10,803 adolescents Tempelaar, Wanda M Otjes, Christiaan P Bun, Clothilde J Plevier, Carolien M van Gastel, Willemijn A MacCabe, James H Kahn, René S Boks, Marco PM BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence suggests that several adult mental disorders, particularly psychoses, are preceded by impairments in cognitive function, reflected in scholastic underachievement. This study investigates the association between scholastic underachievement and general mental health problems in adolescence, using delay in school progression as a marker of poor scholastic performance. METHOD: Cross-sectional secondary school survey comprising 10,803 adolescents. Participants completed the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to assess mental health problems. The association of delayed school progression with the SDQ was investigated using logistic regression with SDQ as outcome and delayed school progression as primary exposure of interest while adjusting for socio-demographic characteristics, adverse life events, school-related factors, risk taking behaviour, healthy lifestyle and physical health. RESULTS: Unadjusted analysis showed an association between delayed school progression and total mental health problems (OR 1.83, 95% CI 1.27 – 2.63) in adolescents. After adjusting for other risk factors (socio-demographic factors and life events) in a logistic regression model the association between delayed school progression en mental health problems was attenuated (OR 1.33, 95% CI 0.86 – 2.05). CONCLUSION: Delayed school progression is associated with general mental health problems in adolescence, but this relationship is heavily confounded by other factors. A causal relationship between impaired cognitive function such as poor scholastic performance and general mental health at adolescence is less likely and delayed school progression may merely be considered an indicator of risk for mental health problems. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-014-0244-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2014-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4177435/ /pubmed/25217816 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-014-0244-5 Text en © Tempelaar et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Tempelaar, Wanda M
Otjes, Christiaan P
Bun, Clothilde J
Plevier, Carolien M
van Gastel, Willemijn A
MacCabe, James H
Kahn, René S
Boks, Marco PM
Delayed school progression and mental health problems in adolescence: a population-based study in 10,803 adolescents
title Delayed school progression and mental health problems in adolescence: a population-based study in 10,803 adolescents
title_full Delayed school progression and mental health problems in adolescence: a population-based study in 10,803 adolescents
title_fullStr Delayed school progression and mental health problems in adolescence: a population-based study in 10,803 adolescents
title_full_unstemmed Delayed school progression and mental health problems in adolescence: a population-based study in 10,803 adolescents
title_short Delayed school progression and mental health problems in adolescence: a population-based study in 10,803 adolescents
title_sort delayed school progression and mental health problems in adolescence: a population-based study in 10,803 adolescents
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4177435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25217816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-014-0244-5
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