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ArticleJournal of public health (Oxford, England)2023

The role of childhood left-behind experience on childhood trauma exposure and mental health outcomes: a propensity score matching (PSM) analysis.

Zhizhou Duan, Yi Feng, Shicun Xu, Desheng Gao, Yan Ji, Xi Sun, Runsen Chen, Yuanyuan Wang

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Article in Journal of public health (Oxford, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Zhizhou DuanKey Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, China; School of Psychology, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.
Yi FengMental Health Center, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China.
Shicun XuNortheast Asian Research Center, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Desheng GaoSchool of Marxism, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Yan JiSchool of Marxism, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
Xi SunDepartment of Population, Resources and Environment, Northeast Asian Studies College, Jilin University, Changchun, China.
Runsen ChenVanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yuanyuan WangKey Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, China; School of Psychology, Center for Studies of Psychological Application, and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China.

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Central Committee of the Communist Young League 22JH108
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backgroundChina has a significant number of left-behind families. This study focuses on the long-term effects of childhood left-behind experience on different type of childhood trauma and mental health outcomes in later life development.

methodsparticipants were 67 795 Chinese young adults. Psychosocial characteristics were screened by sleep quality, the nine-item Patient Health Questionnaire for depressive symptoms, the generalized anxiety disorder-7 for anxiety symptoms, trauma screening questionnaire for post-traumatic stress, a short form of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire for childhood trauma. Propensity score matching (PSM) and multivariate linear regression were applied to analyze the data.

resultsthe results of the post-PSM analysis showed that the distributions of propensity scores for the two groups were approximately equal. And the total sample size in post-analysis dropped to 2358 (Nnuclear family = 1179, Nleft-behind family = 1179), with unmatched cases excluded. Post-matching results showed that the students from left-behind family were significantly associated with severer post-traumatic stress (b = 0.39, 95% CI = [0.15, 0.62]), loneliness (b = 0.29, 95% CI = [0.16, 0.42]), depressive symptoms (b = 0.44, 95% CI = [0.06, 0.82]) and CTQ-physical neglect (b = 0.34, 95% CI = [0.11, 0.58]).

conclusionour study showed that childhood left-behind experiences are tightly related to childhood trauma experience and mental health issues (post-traumatic stress, loneliness and depression) in late adolescents.

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Adverse Childhood ExperiencesMental HealthAdolescentAnxietyHumansPropensity ScoreSurveys and QuestionnairesYoung Adultchildhood left-behind experiencechildhood traumapropensity score matching

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