Mental health in childhood, adolescent depressive symptoms and health risk behaviours among young people in the UK

An analysis of parent-reported mental health in childhood, adolescent depressive symptoms and health risk behaviours in a UK-representative population cohort

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12619001245189

Enrollment

11726

Registered

2019-09-09

Start date

2008-01-01

Completion date

2015-01-01

Last updated

2019-09-30

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This study is a secondary analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), a longitudinal study of young people led by the Centre for Longitudinal Research. Ethics for the MCS has previously been obtained and detailed below. Data will be obtained from the UK Millennium Cohort Study data custodians at the Centre for Longitudinal Research. Additional ethics approval is not required due to the data being pre-existing and non-identifiable. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationships between mental health during childhood and adolescence as an exposure of interest, and subsequent physical activity, diet, sleep and social media use behaviours at 14 years as outcomes of interest, among a large, nationally representative cohort of young people in the United Kingdom. it is hypothesised that mental health problems early in life and in adolescence will predict sub-optimal lifestyle behaviours in adolescence.

Interventions

Parent-reported mental health problems at 7 years measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (average completion time 5 minutes) and self-reported depressive symptoms at 14 years (average completion time 5 minutes) using the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire. each participant had one observation at age 7 years, and again at age 14 years, making the total observation per participant 7 years. Data are pre-exsisting from the UK Millennium Cohort Study and data collection occurred

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

7 Years to 14 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

Complete health behavioural (physical activity, dietary, sleep and social media use), mental health (parent-reported at 7 years and self-reported at 14 years) and demographic (sex, country of birth, household income and body fat percentage) data. Parents of participants provided mental health measures of their children at 7 years and this data was also required for inclusion.

Exclusion criteria

None

Outcome results