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Parental separation in childhood as a risk factor for depression in adulthood: a community-based study of adolescents screened for depression and followed up after 15 years

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Psychiatry, March 2017
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Title
Parental separation in childhood as a risk factor for depression in adulthood: a community-based study of adolescents screened for depression and followed up after 15 years
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BMC Psychiatry, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12888-017-1252-z
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Hannes Bohman, Sara Brolin Låftman, Aivar Päären, Ulf Jonsson

Abstract

Earlier research has investigated the association between parental separation and long-term health outcomes among offspring, but few studies have assessed the potentially moderating role of mental health status in adolescence. The aim of this study was to analyze whether parental separation in childhood predicts depression in adulthood and whether the pattern differs between individuals with and without earlier depression. A community-based sample of individuals with adolescent depression in 1991-93 and matched non-depressed peers were followed up using a structured diagnostic interview after 15 years. The participation rate was 65% (depressed n = 227; non-depressed controls n = 155). Information on parental separation and conditions in childhood and adolescence was collected at baseline. The outcome was depression between the ages 19-31 years; information on depression was collected at the follow-up diagnostic interview. The statistical method used was binary logistic regression. Our analyses showed that depressed adolescents with separated parents had an excess risk of recurrence of depression in adulthood, compared with depressed adolescents with non-separated parents. In addition, among adolescents with depression, parental separation was associated with an increased risk of a switch to bipolar disorder in adulthood. Among the matched non-depressed peers, no associations between parental separation and adult depression or bipolar disorder were found. Parental separation may have long-lasting health consequences for vulnerable individuals who suffer from mental illness already in adolescence.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ireland 1 <1%
Unknown 184 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 36 19%
Student > Master 24 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 7%
Student > Postgraduate 11 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 5%
Other 20 11%
Unknown 71 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 50 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 6%
Social Sciences 8 4%
Neuroscience 3 2%
Other 12 6%
Unknown 78 42%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 22 December 2023.
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