Child And Adolescent Mental Health
Child And Adolescent Mental Health

Supporting young people through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: a multi-site qualitative longitudinal study

BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Oct 22;24(1):1266. doi: 10.1186/s12913-024-11752-z. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, youth have experienced substantial stress due to abrupt changes in …

The mediating role of intentional self-regulation in the constructive and pathological compensation processes of problematic social networking use

Addict Behav. 2024 Oct 9;160:108188. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.108188. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Perceived social isolation is a key predictor of college students’ problematic social networking …

Does parent-child connectedness influence substance use among Bhutanese adolescents: evidence from a national survey?

BMC Public Health. 2024 Oct 21;24(1):2889. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-20404-0. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Adolescent substance use is recognized as a global health crisis that threatens adolescents’ physical and …

Infant BMI trajectories as early risk markers of poor psychosocial health in preadolescence

BMC Public Health. 2024 Oct 21;24(1):2890. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19872-1. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Common mental disorders often emerge during childhood and adolescence, and their prevalence is disproportionately elevated …

Adolescents’ physical activity during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic: a qualitative study exploring the experiences of young people living in the context of socioeconomic deprivation

BMC Public Health. 2024 Oct 22;24(1):2450. doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-19777-z. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Adolescent physical activity levels are low and are shown to decline with age into adulthood. …

Mobile phone addiction and self-injury in adolescents with MDD: mediation by self-esteem and depression, and the failure of usage restrictions

BMC Psychiatry. 2024 Oct 22;24(1):712. doi: 10.1186/s12888-024-06184-2. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Previous studies have suggested a significant association between mobile phone addiction (MPA) and non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) …

Higher levels of social support predict lower psychological distress for Pacific peoples living in Aotearoa New Zealand

Sci Rep. 2024 Oct 21;14(1):24673. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-75955-4. ABSTRACT Recent research indicates that rates of psychological distress are almost 1.5 times higher for adult Pacific peoples …

Genomic analysis of intracranial and subcortical brain volumes yields polygenic scores accounting for variation across ancestries

Nat Genet. 2024 Oct 21. doi: 10.1038/s41588-024-01951-z. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Subcortical brain structures are involved in developmental, psychiatric and neurological disorders. Here we …