Cargando…

Family Economics and Mental Health Among High-School Students During COVID-19

INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented socioeconomic and health impacts in the U.S. This study examined racial/ethnic and school poverty status differences in the relationship between parent job loss, experiences with hunger, and indicators of mental health problems among public h...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Jones, Sherry Everett, Hertz, Marci F., DeGue, Sarah A., Merlo, Caitlin L., Piepenbrink, Rumour P., Le, Vi D., Dittus, Patricia J., Houston, Aaron L., Thornton, Jemekia E., Ethier, Kathleen A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Science 2023
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9595376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36400599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.09.015
_version_ 1784815635435356160
author Jones, Sherry Everett
Hertz, Marci F.
DeGue, Sarah A.
Merlo, Caitlin L.
Piepenbrink, Rumour P.
Le, Vi D.
Dittus, Patricia J.
Houston, Aaron L.
Thornton, Jemekia E.
Ethier, Kathleen A.
author_facet Jones, Sherry Everett
Hertz, Marci F.
DeGue, Sarah A.
Merlo, Caitlin L.
Piepenbrink, Rumour P.
Le, Vi D.
Dittus, Patricia J.
Houston, Aaron L.
Thornton, Jemekia E.
Ethier, Kathleen A.
author_sort Jones, Sherry Everett
collection PubMed
description INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented socioeconomic and health impacts in the U.S. This study examined racial/ethnic and school poverty status differences in the relationship between parent job loss, experiences with hunger, and indicators of mental health problems among public high-school students nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: The study analyzed data from the Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, conducted in January–June 2021. The Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey was a 1-time, cross-sectional, online survey that used a stratified, 3-stage cluster sample to obtain a nationally representative sample of high-school students in the U.S. This study was limited to public-school students (n=7,379). RESULTS: Among public high-school students nationwide, 36.9% experienced poor mental health during the pandemic, and during the past year, 43.9% experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, 19.8% seriously considered attempting suicide, and 9.1% attempted suicide. Parent job loss and having gone hungry were associated with indicators of mental health problems overall and across racial/ethnic groups and school poverty status levels. CONCLUSIONS: Students who experience parent job loss and hunger are likely to also experience poor mental health and may be at higher risk for suicide.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9595376
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2023
publisher Elsevier Science
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-95953762022-10-25 Family Economics and Mental Health Among High-School Students During COVID-19 Jones, Sherry Everett Hertz, Marci F. DeGue, Sarah A. Merlo, Caitlin L. Piepenbrink, Rumour P. Le, Vi D. Dittus, Patricia J. Houston, Aaron L. Thornton, Jemekia E. Ethier, Kathleen A. Am J Prev Med Research Article INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented socioeconomic and health impacts in the U.S. This study examined racial/ethnic and school poverty status differences in the relationship between parent job loss, experiences with hunger, and indicators of mental health problems among public high-school students nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: The study analyzed data from the Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, conducted in January–June 2021. The Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey was a 1-time, cross-sectional, online survey that used a stratified, 3-stage cluster sample to obtain a nationally representative sample of high-school students in the U.S. This study was limited to public-school students (n=7,379). RESULTS: Among public high-school students nationwide, 36.9% experienced poor mental health during the pandemic, and during the past year, 43.9% experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, 19.8% seriously considered attempting suicide, and 9.1% attempted suicide. Parent job loss and having gone hungry were associated with indicators of mental health problems overall and across racial/ethnic groups and school poverty status levels. CONCLUSIONS: Students who experience parent job loss and hunger are likely to also experience poor mental health and may be at higher risk for suicide. Elsevier Science 2023-03 2022-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9595376/ /pubmed/36400599 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.09.015 Text en Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
spellingShingle Research Article
Jones, Sherry Everett
Hertz, Marci F.
DeGue, Sarah A.
Merlo, Caitlin L.
Piepenbrink, Rumour P.
Le, Vi D.
Dittus, Patricia J.
Houston, Aaron L.
Thornton, Jemekia E.
Ethier, Kathleen A.
Family Economics and Mental Health Among High-School Students During COVID-19
title Family Economics and Mental Health Among High-School Students During COVID-19
title_full Family Economics and Mental Health Among High-School Students During COVID-19
title_fullStr Family Economics and Mental Health Among High-School Students During COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Family Economics and Mental Health Among High-School Students During COVID-19
title_short Family Economics and Mental Health Among High-School Students During COVID-19
title_sort family economics and mental health among high-school students during covid-19
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9595376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36400599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.09.015
work_keys_str_mv AT jonessherryeverett familyeconomicsandmentalhealthamonghighschoolstudentsduringcovid19
AT hertzmarcif familyeconomicsandmentalhealthamonghighschoolstudentsduringcovid19
AT deguesaraha familyeconomicsandmentalhealthamonghighschoolstudentsduringcovid19
AT merlocaitlinl familyeconomicsandmentalhealthamonghighschoolstudentsduringcovid19
AT piepenbrinkrumourp familyeconomicsandmentalhealthamonghighschoolstudentsduringcovid19
AT levid familyeconomicsandmentalhealthamonghighschoolstudentsduringcovid19
AT dittuspatriciaj familyeconomicsandmentalhealthamonghighschoolstudentsduringcovid19
AT houstonaaronl familyeconomicsandmentalhealthamonghighschoolstudentsduringcovid19
AT thorntonjemekiae familyeconomicsandmentalhealthamonghighschoolstudentsduringcovid19
AT ethierkathleena familyeconomicsandmentalhealthamonghighschoolstudentsduringcovid19