Adolescent problems rise

Mental Health Nursing,  Nov 2004  

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New research shows adolescents in the UK have more mental health problems than 25 years ago.

A paper due to be published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry this month will show that overall the mental health of adolescents in the UK declined across the UK since the mid 1970s. Children in their teens in the 1990s were more likely to show a range of difficulties than those in their teens in the mid 1970s.

A research team from the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the Institute of Psychiatry in London carried out the study, together with Professor Andrew Pickles, a statistician at the University of Manchester. They analysed information from national surveys undertaken in 1974, 1986 and 1999, looking at trends in the same kinds of problems in UK adolescents over the whole 25 year period. The focus of the study was 1546 year olds at each time point.

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