ArticleScandinavian journal of public health2022
Loneliness, subjective health complaints, and medicine use among Finnish adolescents 2006-2018.
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- Predicting the Risk of Loneliness in Children and Adolescents: A Machine Learning Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Mediating Effect of Depression on the Relationship between Loneliness and Substance Use in Korean Adolescents.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Loneliness, belonging and psychosomatic complaints across late adolescence and young adulthood: a Swedish cohort study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- The cohort trends of social connectedness in secondary school students in Finland between 2017 and 2021.PloS one · 2024Article
- Loneliness in the Norwegian adolescent population: prevalence trends and relations to mental and self-rated health.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
aimsLoneliness is an important public health challenge for all ages. This study reports time trends of loneliness among adolescents over a 12-year period and analyses the strength of the associations between loneliness, health complaints, and medicine use.
methodsData were derived from the cross-sectional Finnish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study conducted in 2006, 2010, 2014, and 2018. The study population is based on a random sample of schools with 20,444 participants aged 11-15 years. The trends were analysed with a Mantel-Haenszel test, and the strength of the associations was evaluated by mixed-effects logistic and linear regressions.
resultsAn increasing prevalence in frequent loneliness (2006: 11%; 2018: 15%) was evident over the 12-year study period, especially in girls and 15-year-olds. Among all adolescents, loneliness was associated with a higher risk of recurrent health complaints and medicine use to treat the corresponding health issues, especially nervousness (odds ratio 5.8) and sleeping difficulties (odds ratio 7.6).
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