ArticlePreventive medicine reports2025
Violent crime victimization and mental health among adolescents in Mexico.
Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Community violence exposure and mental health in urban Mexico: The moderating role of school belonging in early adolescence and young adulthood.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2026Article
- Concern about the possibility of being a victim of extortion and symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress in Peruvian adults: a model of structural equations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Prevalence of depression among adolescents in rural communities of Mexico.Journal of global health · 2025Observational
- Concern about the possibility of becoming a victim of extortion: validation of a brief scale for Peruvian citizens.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objectives: To understand the association between violent crime victimization and mental health outcomes among adolescents in Mexico, and to define the link between the nominal classification of violent crime and mental health outcomes. Methods: We used fixed-effects linear and logistic regressions and survey data from the 2018-2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023 National Health and Nutrition Survey ( Results: Violent crime victimization was associated with higher scores of having depressive symptoms (CESD-7) (b = 1.93 points, ± 0.26), and greater likelihood of suicidal ideation (adjusted odds ratio (aOR) = 5.32, ± 0.86) and suicide attempts in the last twelve months (aOR = 6.87, ± 2.74). More serious classes of violent crime relate to worse mental health outcomes among adolescents. Specifically, kidnapping, the most serious class of violent crime in our data, correlates with worse mental health outcomes when compared to robbery or aggravated assault. Conclusions: Violent crime victimization is linked to increased depressive symptoms, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts among adolescents. More serious classes of violent crime are associated with worse mental health outcomes in this population.
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