The Public Health Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Adolescent Depression and Obesity

Goodman, Elizabeth; Slap, Gail B.; Huang, Bin

doi:10.2105/ajph.93.11.1844

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“…Vocational track ("Haupt-und Realschule") students have an increased risk of developing depressive disorders (Fend and Schröer 1990) compared to academic track ("Gymnasium") students. This is consistent with the findings that household income is an important predictor of students depressive symptoms (Goodman et al 2003) and socioeconomic status is a main predictor for students attending a vocational track school (Bos et al 2004). Therefore, students from a vocational track of schooling represent a risk population for the development and chronification of depressive disorders while simultaneously these students are hardly reached by usual health care (Spoth et al 1999).…”

Section: Adolescents and Depressionsupporting

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A school-based universal programme to prevent depression and to build up life skills

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Aim: To prevent the development and increase of depressive symptoms in adolescents by empowering adolescents to improve their life skills, to foster their realistic thinking, and to influence school behaviour. Subjects and methods: Vocational track students in grade 8 from the southwest of Germany participated either in a school-based universal prevention programme or a non-intervention control group (standard curriculum). The cognitive-behavioural programme LARS&LISA includes 10 sessions held in a regular school setting in same-gender groups. The programme is based on the social information-processing model of social competence (Dodge, Annual Review of Psychology 44:559-584, 1993) and consists of five basic elements: (1) formulation and setting of personal goals; (2) relationship between cognitions, emotions and behaviour; (3) exploration and change of dysfunctional cognitions; (4) training of social competence; (5) assertiveness training. Results: The programme is extensively evaluated in three studies and has shown positive effects on the participants’ social network, symptoms of depression and aggressive behaviour compared to teaching as usual. Conclusions: We have demonstrated that the programme can be successfully delivered to students in a higher vocational track of school (Realschule) by psychologists. Currently it is being evaluated in a lower vocational track of school (Hauptschule) by teachers and psychologists. With LARS&LISA we provide a prevention strategy that can be successfully delivered to a school-based population and integrated into classroom curriculum

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“…SES was assessed using a composite variable based on the job of the principal provider, which was sometimes the adolescent, and his/her education level [43]. This indicator is associated with depressive symptoms [44] as well as with suicidal thoughts and attempts in adolescents [45]. Furthermore, low SES is a correlate of household overcrowding in the general population [46], but not necessarily in Nunavik because almost everyone is living in social housing [38].…”

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Household overcrowding and psychological distress among Nunavik Inuit adolescents: a longitudinal study

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International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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About half of Nunavik Inuit live in overcrowded households compared to very few Canadians from the general population. Living in overcrowded households is associated with greater risks of suffering from mental health problems for Canadian adolescents. The present work aims at studying prospectively the hypothesised relationship between household overcrowding at childhood and psychological distress during adolescence among Nunavik Inuit, as well as the hypothesised relationship between these phenomena when they are both measure at adolescence. Recruited as part of the Nunavik Child Development Study, 220 participants were met at 11 years old in average and then when they were 18 years old in average. Household overcrowding was assessed using the people per room ratio. Psychological distress symptoms were operationalised at adolescence using depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts. The results did not show that childhood household crowding had a long-term effect on psychological distress. An absence of moderation by sex of the association was also found in the present study. Despite those results, household crowding could be a risk factor only when in interaction with other elements related with poverty or housing or could be experienced as a difficulty for adolescents on other aspects than depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts.

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“…Variables tested for inclusion in the risk index were maternal BMI, [20][21][22] gestational weight gain, 20,[23][24][25] maternal education, 26,27 smoking, 20,[28][29][30] social support, 31 food insecurity during pregnancy, [32][33][34] and stress at 1 year postpartum. 34 Maternal BMI was calculated from measurements taken at the initial prenatal visit during the first trimester and categorized as normal or underweight (,25), overweight (25-,30), or obese ($30).…”

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Breastfeeding Duration and Weight Gain Trajectory in Infancy

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The Public Health Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Adolescent Depression and Obesity

Abstract: SES is associated with a large proportion of the disease burden within the total population.

Cited by 284 publications

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A school-based universal programme to prevent depression and to build up life skills

A school-based universal programme to prevent depression and to build up life skills

Household overcrowding and psychological distress among Nunavik Inuit adolescents: a longitudinal study

Breastfeeding Duration and Weight Gain Trajectory in Infancy

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