It found girls scored consistently lower on life satisfaction, mental well-being and self-rated health, and higher on loneliness, than boys. About a quarter of 15-year-old girls reported feeling lonely most of the time or always in the past year, compared with about one in seven boys. A ...
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The aims of this study are to analyse the concept of mental health from the perspective of adolescent girls and boys and to describe what adolescent girls and boys regard as important determinants of mental health. Interviews with 48 children, 13 and 16 years old, in Sweden were held ...
"Our findings identify drivers of the disproportionate rise in acutemental health careencounters that occurred during the time intervals corresponding to the abrupt shift to remote learning, followed by summer vacation and the start of a new school year," said Zima, professor-in-residence, UCLA Chi...
Further, a substantial body of literature has demonstrated a growing gender gap in adolescent mental health (Campbell et al., 2021). Findings from the present study suggest that reducing the deterioration in health behaviours among adolescent girls and gender diverse young people may offer an ...
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Medical News & Perspectives March 28, 2023 Teen Girls Are Faring Worse Than Boys on Nearly All Mental Health Measures—Here’s Why Anita Slomski JAMA. 2023;329(15):1243-1245. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.3402 JAMA Medical News related articles icon Related Articles Original Investigation Pediatric ...
mental, physical, familial, and socialdomains. This exemplary explanation of the various forcesacting upon adolescent girls allows the reader to place them-selves in a contemporary young girl’s shoes.The text examines the overarching influences on youngwomen imparted through mass media and ...
Overall, the proportion of boys and girls with mental health conditions was similar, although the rate of any mental health condition was highest (23.9%) among young women aged 17-19 years. This suggests that on average a class may contain at least one child who is struggling with an emotio...
Eighty percent of young women were found to have a mental health disorder and 55 percent had two or more mental health disorders four to five months after sexual assault, according to a study led by UCL and The Havens, London's specialist sexual assault