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Youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs?
BACKGROUND: Youth with chronic physical health problems often experience social and emotional problems. We investigate the relationship between participation in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada community-based mentoring programs (BBBS) and youth social and mood outcomes by youth health status....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755442/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29304853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-5003-3 |
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author | Lipman, Ellen L. DeWit, David DuBois, David L. Larose, Simon Erdem, Gizem |
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description | BACKGROUND: Youth with chronic physical health problems often experience social and emotional problems. We investigate the relationship between participation in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada community-based mentoring programs (BBBS) and youth social and mood outcomes by youth health status. METHODS: Youth newly enrolled in BBBS were classified by health status (one or more chronic physical health problems without activity limitation, n = 191; one or more chronic physical health problems with activity limitation, n = 94; no chronic health problem or activity limitation, n = 536) and mentoring status (yes/no) at 18 month follow-up. Youth outcomes measured at follow-up were social anxiety, depressed mood, and peer self-esteem. RESULTS: Youth with chronic health problems and activity limitation were more likely to live with two biological parents, use mental health or social services, and have parents who reported difficulties with depressed mood, social anxiety, family functioning and neighbourhood problems. At 18 month follow-up, mentored youth in this health status group experienced fewer symptoms of social anxiety and higher peer self-esteem compared to non-mentored youth. Mentored youth with chronic health problems without activity limitation and mentored youth with no health problems or limitations did not show significant improvements in social anxiety and peer self-esteem. Regardless of their health status, mentored youth reported fewer symptoms of depressed mood than non-mentored youth. CONCLUSIONS: Youth with chronic health problems, particularly those with activity limitation as well, demonstrate a capacity to experience social and mood benefits associated with mentoring. |
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spelling | pubmed-57554422018-01-08 Youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs? Lipman, Ellen L. DeWit, David DuBois, David L. Larose, Simon Erdem, Gizem BMC Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Youth with chronic physical health problems often experience social and emotional problems. We investigate the relationship between participation in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada community-based mentoring programs (BBBS) and youth social and mood outcomes by youth health status. METHODS: Youth newly enrolled in BBBS were classified by health status (one or more chronic physical health problems without activity limitation, n = 191; one or more chronic physical health problems with activity limitation, n = 94; no chronic health problem or activity limitation, n = 536) and mentoring status (yes/no) at 18 month follow-up. Youth outcomes measured at follow-up were social anxiety, depressed mood, and peer self-esteem. RESULTS: Youth with chronic health problems and activity limitation were more likely to live with two biological parents, use mental health or social services, and have parents who reported difficulties with depressed mood, social anxiety, family functioning and neighbourhood problems. At 18 month follow-up, mentored youth in this health status group experienced fewer symptoms of social anxiety and higher peer self-esteem compared to non-mentored youth. Mentored youth with chronic health problems without activity limitation and mentored youth with no health problems or limitations did not show significant improvements in social anxiety and peer self-esteem. Regardless of their health status, mentored youth reported fewer symptoms of depressed mood than non-mentored youth. CONCLUSIONS: Youth with chronic health problems, particularly those with activity limitation as well, demonstrate a capacity to experience social and mood benefits associated with mentoring. BioMed Central 2018-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5755442/ /pubmed/29304853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-5003-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lipman, Ellen L. DeWit, David DuBois, David L. Larose, Simon Erdem, Gizem Youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs? |
title | Youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs? |
title_full | Youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs? |
title_fullStr | Youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs? |
title_full_unstemmed | Youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs? |
title_short | Youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs? |
title_sort | youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755442/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29304853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-5003-3 |
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