ArticlePLOS mental health2024
The social determinants of adolescent anxiety and depression in peri-urban South Africa.
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- Enhancing Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Adolescents and Young Adults Through the Asenze Impilo Project: Protocol for a Human-Centered Design Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- An exploratory study of anxiety symptoms and associated factors among Kenyan youth recruited from colleges and communities in urban and peri-urban areas in the Nairobi Metropolitan.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- A scoping review of mental health problems and associated psychological factors pertinent to young people in education in low-and middle-income countries.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The prevalence and correlates of common mental disorders among adolescents and young adults in rural South Africa: analysis of household survey data informed by lived experience experts.BMC public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
The environment in which adolescents live impacts their mental health, through social determinants. We examine the impact of social determinants on anxiety, and depression in adolescents (aged 13-19) in peri-urban KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Using structural equation modelling, we identify direct relationships between social determinants and depression/anxiety, as well as indirect pathways between social determinants. Our findings indicate that living with the biological mother, the perception of family and peer support, school enrolment, and a positive sense of school membership may protect adolescent's mental health. Conversely, exposure to community violence may be directly detrimental to adolescent mental health and indirectly harm mental health through the negation of a sense of school membership. Understanding the potential direct and indirect pathways between social determinants and adolescents' mental health in resource-constrained contexts can inform interventions to protect young people's well-being through the identification of appropriate entry points closer to and further from the adolescent and their household.
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