Growing up in Uppsala: The “New Morbidity” in the Adolescent Period A Longitudinal Epidemiological Study Based on School Data and Some External Sources

Lagerberg, Dagrnar; Mellbin, Tore; Sundelin, Claes; Vuille, J. C.

doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.1994.tb13272.x

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“…Such factors include socioeconomic status (SES) and cultural characteristics, parenting style, family structure, neighborhood and school spirit, peer pressure and maturational timing. Problem behaviour has similar roots (3,4). These paradigms view the adolescent as a passive object of his or her environment.…”

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Do adolescents' own intentions regarding healthy behaviours affect outcome? A two-year prospective study

Berg-Kelly¹,

Kullander²

1999

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Adolescents' own intentions regarding health behaviours, in addition to their context, are believed to be important for the health habits they chose. This was studied prospectively over a 2-y period. A total of 552 students, 391 aged 13 y and 161 aged 15 y, reported their health and problem behaviours, socioeconomic background and intentions regarding health behaviours through questionnaires in 1991 and in 1993. Outcome dealt with three domains: health habits; acquisition of adult lifestyles; and problem behaviours. The material was analysed for correlations. Significant results were entered into multiple regression stepwise procedures. As expected, already having initiated adult lifestyles or problem behaviours were the most important factors associated with such behaviours 2 y later. Further analyses were then limited to those students who had not started such lifestyles, in order to determine what factors kept them from doing so in a 2-y span. Key predictors for healthy behaviours were adolescents' own decisions not to engage in adult lifestyles or risky behaviours, family processes consistent with support and school satisfaction. Association with peer groups where smoking and drinking were commonplace predicted less optimal behaviours. Gender or socioeconomic factors were not predictive. The results support a comprehensive approach to health promotion during adolescence.

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Do adolescents' own intentions regarding healthy behaviours affect outcome? A two-year prospective study

Berg-Kelly¹,

Kullander²

1999

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“…The context in which adolescents are brought up influences their decisions, behaviours and lifestyles. Today there is both theoretical and empirical research on the influence of context on health outcome (1)(2)(3). For example, Lerner's theoretic model, developmental contextualism, focuses on the interaction between the maturing, continuously changing individual and the ecological context within which that person lives (4).…”

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Health and health behaviours among Swedish adolescents during a period of social change

Grufman¹,

Carlsten²,

Krabbe³

et al. 1999

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In Sweden there have been cutbacks in the welfare system and increasing unemployment during the 1990s. In what way have these external factors influenced health and behaviour among adolescents? The study describes health profiles and behaviours among students in three schools in Gothenburg, Sweden. Results are based on 2284 self-reports, representing 88% of available students in 7th and 9th grades with mean ages of 13.5 and 15.5 y, respectively. The study questionnaire was administered four times, in 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996. The reported health and behaviours showed remarkable stability over the period. When the surveys from 1990 and 1992 were aggregated and compared with the surveys of 1994 and 1996 there was a small increase in psychosomatic symptoms, mental health symptoms and risk-taking behaviours. Despite the drastic social changes during the 1990s there was only a small change for the worse in reported health and behaviours. It is possible that the external changes had little impact on adolescent networks, or that the period was too short to have had much impact on health and behaviour.

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“…For example, at the beginning of the 1980s there was a lack of validated measures of mental health problems among adolescents. The standard of that time was to interview teachers or parents (up to the age of 18) [ 3 , 4 ]. A Norwegian child psychiatrist was one of the few known researchers in Scandinavia at that time who directed questionnaires to young people themselves about their mental health [ 5 ].…”

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Addressing challenges of validity and internal consistency of mental health measures in a 27- year longitudinal cohort study – the Northern Swedish Cohort study

Hammarström

Westerlund

Kirves

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BMC Med Res Methodol

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BackgroundThere are inherent methodological challenges in the measurement of mental health problems in longitudinal research. There is constant development in definitions, taxonomies and demands concerning the properties of mental health measurements. The aim of this paper was to construct composite measures of mental health problems (according to today’s standard) from single questionnaire items devised in the early 1980s, and to evaluate their internal consistency and factorial invariance across the life course using the Northern Swedish Cohort.MethodsAll pupils in the last year of compulsory school in Luleå in 1981 (n = 1083) form a prospective cohort study where the participants have been followed with questionnaires from the age of 16 (in 1981) until the age of 43 (in 2008). We created and tested the following composite measures from self-reports at each follow-up: depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, functional somatic symptoms, modified GHQ and positive health. Validity and internal consistency were tested by confirmatory factor analysis, including tests of factorial invariance over time.ResultsAs an overall assessment, the results showed that the composite measures (based on more than 30-year-old single item questions) are likely to have acceptable factorial invariance as well as internal consistency over time.ConclusionsTesting the properties of the mental health measures used in older studies according to the standards of today is of great importance in longitudinal research. Our study demonstrates that composite measures of mental health problems can be constructed from single items which are more than 30 years old and that these measures seem to have the same factorial structure and internal consistency across a significant part of the life course. Thus, it can be possible to overcome some specific inherent methodological challenges in using historical data in longitudinal research.

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Growing up in Uppsala: The “New Morbidity” in the Adolescent Period A Longitudinal Epidemiological Study Based on School Data and Some External Sources

Cited by 13 publications

References 48 publications

Do adolescents' own intentions regarding healthy behaviours affect outcome? A two-year prospective study

Do adolescents' own intentions regarding healthy behaviours affect outcome? A two-year prospective study

Health and health behaviours among Swedish adolescents during a period of social change

Addressing challenges of validity and internal consistency of mental health measures in a 27- year longitudinal cohort study – the Northern Swedish Cohort study

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