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A comparison of mental health of student and not student emerging adults living in Ecuador
Most of the studies about mental health and quality of life of emerging adults have been conducted in developed countries and non-students’ population has been neglected, limiting the generalisation of the results to other socioeconomic realities. This paper reports the results of an observational s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9880921/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36707675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27695-0 |
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description | Most of the studies about mental health and quality of life of emerging adults have been conducted in developed countries and non-students’ population has been neglected, limiting the generalisation of the results to other socioeconomic realities. This paper reports the results of an observational study on differences between the two cohorts (students vs non-students) both on mental health and quality of life measures but also on demographic, lifestyle and mental health variables in emerging adults living in a middle-income country. Associations between variables and interactions in the prediction of both outcomes scores were explored to understand how much other variables may contribute to differences between the two groups. We found poorer mental health and worse health-related quality of life in the students than the non-students, although effect sizes were small. Differences between the groups on some sociodemographic predictor variables were statistically significant, showing fairly strong effects, for social status, sleeping hours and parenting, however, none of the predictor variables showed confounding with group effects on both outcomes. Developing countries are growing and work forces are changing, creating a huge global need to understand these changes and the effects on the mental health and quality of life of this evolving population. Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04596345). |
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spelling | pubmed-98809212023-01-27 A comparison of mental health of student and not student emerging adults living in Ecuador Paz, Clara Evans, Chris Sci Rep Article Most of the studies about mental health and quality of life of emerging adults have been conducted in developed countries and non-students’ population has been neglected, limiting the generalisation of the results to other socioeconomic realities. This paper reports the results of an observational study on differences between the two cohorts (students vs non-students) both on mental health and quality of life measures but also on demographic, lifestyle and mental health variables in emerging adults living in a middle-income country. Associations between variables and interactions in the prediction of both outcomes scores were explored to understand how much other variables may contribute to differences between the two groups. We found poorer mental health and worse health-related quality of life in the students than the non-students, although effect sizes were small. Differences between the groups on some sociodemographic predictor variables were statistically significant, showing fairly strong effects, for social status, sleeping hours and parenting, however, none of the predictor variables showed confounding with group effects on both outcomes. Developing countries are growing and work forces are changing, creating a huge global need to understand these changes and the effects on the mental health and quality of life of this evolving population. Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT04596345). Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9880921/ /pubmed/36707675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27695-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Paz, Clara Evans, Chris A comparison of mental health of student and not student emerging adults living in Ecuador |
title | A comparison of mental health of student and not student emerging adults living in Ecuador |
title_full | A comparison of mental health of student and not student emerging adults living in Ecuador |
title_fullStr | A comparison of mental health of student and not student emerging adults living in Ecuador |
title_full_unstemmed | A comparison of mental health of student and not student emerging adults living in Ecuador |
title_short | A comparison of mental health of student and not student emerging adults living in Ecuador |
title_sort | comparison of mental health of student and not student emerging adults living in ecuador |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9880921/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36707675 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27695-0 |
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