ArticleThe International journal of social psychiatry2022
Family functioning but not social capital is associated with better mental health in adolescents affected by violence and displacement by armed conflict in Colombia.
Article in The International journal of social psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Feasibility, acceptability and implementation of a whole-family mental health intervention for displaced adolescent girls in Colombia: A mixed-methods pilot randomized controlled trial.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Factorial Structure Analysis of the Communities that Care Youth Survey (CTC-YS) in Colombian Adolescents.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2025Article
- A Scoping Review of Family-Based Prevention Strategies in Adolescent Mental Health.Psychology research and behavior management · 2025Review
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- The influence of positivity and self-efficacy beliefs on family functioning among young adults in Italy and Colombia.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- How does family functioning contribute to academic-related outcomes of Chinese adolescents: the mediating role of spirituality.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Psychometric properties of the Chinese Family Assessment Instrument: evidence from mainland China.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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backgroundThe effect of the Colombian armed conflict on the mental health of adolescents is still poorly understood.
aimsGiven social interventions are most likely to inform policy, we tested whether two potential intervention targets, family functioning and social capital, were associated with mental health in Colombian adolescents, and whether this was moderated by experience of violence and displacement.
methodsWe examined the cross-sectional association between family functioning, cognitive social capital, structural social capital and 12-month prevalence of Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) diagnosed psychiatric disorder, using data on 12 to 17-year-old adolescents (
resultsNeither structural nor cognitive social capital were associated with better mental health. Better family functioning was associated with reduced risk of poor mental health in an unadjusted analysis (OR 0.90 [0.85-0.96]), and after cumulative adjustments for demographic confounders (OR 0.91 [0.86-0.97]), non-specific violence and harm (OR 0.91 [0.86-0.97]) and social capital variables (OR 0.91 [0.85-0.97]). In the final model, each additional point on the family APGAR scale was associated with a 9% reduced odds of any CIDI diagnosed disorder in the last 12 months.
conclusionsBetter family functioning was associated with better mental health outcomes for all adolescents. This effect remained present in those affected by the armed conflict even after accounting for potential confounders.
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