The reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and deliberate self-harm among Chinese rural adolescents: a cross-lagged panel analysis.

Background: While the association between depressive symptoms and deliberate self-harm in adolescence is extensively documented, the nature, bi-directionality, and longitudinal dynamics of this relationship remain underexplored. This study aims to investigate the causal and reciprocal relationship between depressive symptoms and deliberate self-harm among rural adolescents in western China.

Methods: A 2-year panel study was conducted among 1,840 adolescents aged 10-18 attending rural junior and senior high schools in Sichuan Province, China.

The Association Between Social Support And Trying Smoking Among Rural Adolescents In Rural Western China: The Intermediary Role Of Mental Health Problems And Life Satisfaction.

Introduction: Most adult smokers develop their addiction by trying smoking during adolescence. Elucidation of the psychosocial mechanisms underlying smoking initiation may be crucial for the prevention of adolescent tobacco use. The study aimed to identify key psychosocial factors in order to provide a scientific basis for preventing and reducing the occurrence of initial smoking behaviour among adolescents.

Internet addiction and depressive and anxious symptoms among Chinese rural left-behind adolescents: Mediating roles of resilience and friendship quality.

Background: Rural left-behind adolescents are more vulnerable to Internet addiction and depressive and anxious symptoms due to the lack of family support and parental supervision. This study was the first to investigate the longitudinal relationships between Internet addiction and depressive and anxious symptoms and to examine the mediating roles of resilience and friendship quality in rural left-behind adolescents.

Methods: Included in this study, which was from a longitudinal study conducted five times over 2 years, were 1001 rural left-behind adolescents.

The association between physical activity and subjective well-being among adolescents in southwest China by parental absence: a moderated mediation model.

Objectives: Built on the Positive Youth Development (PYD) framework, this study examined how physical activity affected the subjective well-being of adolescents in the multi-ethnic area of southwest China. The mediating role of school connectedness as an external development asset and the moderating role of resilience as an internal development asset were specified and tested within the framework of sport-based PYD.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 3143 adolescents (47.

Factors associated with medication interruption among outpatients with severe mental illness exposed to COVID-19.

Many patients with severe mental illness (SMI) relapsed and deteriorated during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they experienced medication interruption. This study aimed to investigate factors affecting medication interruption in patients with SMI during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 2,077 patients with SMI participated in an online survey on medication interruption during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Subjective well-being among AIDS orphans in southwest China: the role of school connectedness, peer support, and resilience.

Background: Few studies have explored the health and development of AIDS orphans using the positive youth development (PYD) framework. Grounded in this framework, the main objective of this study is to examine how internal assets (i.e.

Predicting physical exercise changes in Chinese rural adolescents: the application of the health action process approach model.

The purposes of the current study were to explore the applicability of the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) model for interpreting changes in physical exercise behavior and to examine the key determinants of changes in physical exercise. The participants were 639 rural middle school students in Sichuan province, China, who did not perform physical exercise. Three surveys and two interventions were completed in the same participants within 1.

[Physical exercise impact on the life satisfaction among rural adolescents in Zizhong County].

Objective: To explore the direct effect of physical exercise impacting on life satisfaction and the mediating role of mental health status and resilience between the relationship of physical exercise and life satisfaction in rural adolescents.

Methods: A total of 2282 of grade 7 and grade 10 of two rural middle school students( 15. 21± 0.

[Analysis of reciprocity between mental health status and academic achievement under the protective effect of psychological resilience in junior school students in earthquake-hit area].

Objective: To verify the reciprocity between mental health status and academic achievement and the protection of psychological resilience.

Methods: An approximate sampling method was adopted in October, 2010. Two junior high schools were selected from the severely earthquake-hit area( Mianzhu City, Sichuan Province) andthe slight earthquake-hit area( a suburban county of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province), respectively, and conducted the survey by using a self-report questionnaire( including general demographic characteristics, middle school students ' mental health scale and resilience scale).

Prevalence of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Its Correlates Among Junior High School Students at 53 Months After Experiencing an Earthquake.

Objective: To identify the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its determinants among adolescents more than 4 years after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.

Method: Adolescents (1,125 total) from 2 junior high schools in areas affected by the catastrophic earthquake were followed up for 3 years. The self-rating PTSD scale based on the Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV) and the Chinese Classification and Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disorders, 2nd Edition, Revised (CCMD-2-R) was collected at 53 months, and determinant data were collected repeatedly.

Heterogeneity of adolescent health risk behaviors in rural western China: A latent class analysis.

Background: Adolescent health risk behaviors are a public health priority given their prevalence and their associations with chronic diseases and life quality in adulthood. This study examined the heterogeneity of adolescent health risk behaviors and the associations between demographic characteristics and subgroup membership in rural western China.

Methods: In fall 2015, 2805 students from rural middle schools in Sichuan Province were surveyed using the Health-Related Behavior Questionnaire for Adolescents.

[The associations between the peer relation, social support and mental health of adolescents in Wenchuan Earthquake-hit areas].

Objective: To identify trajectory and its correlates of mental health among adolescents in Wenchuan earthquake-hit areas.

Methods: The students of grade seven were selected in two junior high schools from slightly and severely earthquake-hit areas respectively. Longitudinal design was used to address 5-time follow-up surveys among the same participants every 6 months since October, 2010.