ArticleChild and adolescent mental health2023
Debate: Don't mind the gap - why do we not care about the gender gap in common mental health difficulties?
Article in Child and adolescent mental health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Measuring irritability across childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood: an investigation of measurement invariance by age, sex, and informant.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Life meaning and purpose as an unrecognized determinant of mental health equity in Canadian adolescents.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Within-Individual Variability in Well-Being Among Emerging Adults.Journal of adolescence · 2025Article
- The hidden burden: self-reported irritability in adolescent girls signals higher psychiatric risk.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Adolescent girls' explanations of high rates of low mood and anxiety in their population: a co-produced qualitative study.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Incongruent Expectations: A Qualitative Study of the Gendered Experiences of Canadian Young People.Qualitative health research · 2025Article
- The improvement path of depression and anxiety among adult women in Shanxi Province, China: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Navigating (gendered) social worlds: A qualitative exploration of Canadian young people's social relationships and mental health.PLOS mental health · 2024Article
- Exploring patterns in mental health treatment and interests of single adults in the United States: a secondary data analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
There is a substantial gender gap in common mental health difficulties such as depression and anxiety, and evidence on drivers of this gap is sparse. Yet, the current tendency in the field is to treat it as inevitable, and its drivers are rarely examined as a worthwhile question to pursue. We discuss possible reasons for this oversight, while highlighting the need to reform research priorities and systems to ensure this issue receives the investment and interest necessary to inform better prevention and support. We emphasise the need to meaningfully engage with women on the gender mental health gap to better inform investigations into salient drivers and, in turn, efforts toward change. We challenge the research community to question such pervasive disinterest in this large inequality disproportionately affecting over half the population, to prevent and narrow this for future generations.
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