Internalizing disorders and quality of life in adolescence: evidence for independent associations
Braz. J. Psychiatry (São Paulo, 1999, Impr.)
; 36(4): 305-312, Oct-Dec/2014. tab, graf
Artigo
em Inglês
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BR1.1
ABSTRACT
Objective:
To investigate whether internalizing disorders are associated with quality of life (QoL) in adolescents, even after accounting for shared risk factors.Methods:
The sample comprised 102 adolescents from a community cross-sectional study with an oversampling of anxious subjects. Risk factors previously associated with QoL were assessed and divided into five blocks organized hierarchically from proximal to distal sets of risk factors.Results:
Multiple regression analysis yielded a hierarchical model accounting for 72% of QoL variance. All blocks were consistently associated with QoL (p < 0.05), accounting for the following percentages of variance 12% for demographics; 5.2% for family environment; 37.8% for stressful events; 10% for nutritional and health habits; and 64.2% for dimensional psychopathological symptoms or 22.8% for psychiatric diagnoses (dichotomous). Although most of the QoL variance attributed to internalizing symptoms was explained by the four proximal blocks in the hierarchical model (43.2%), about 21% of the variance was independently associated with internalizing symptoms/diagnoses.Conclusions:
QoL is associated with several aspects of adolescent life that were largely predicted by our hierarchical model. Our findings reinforce the hypothesis that internalizing disorders and internalizing symptoms in adolescents have a high impact on QoL and deserve proper clinical attention. .
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Assunto principal:
Transtornos de Ansiedade
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Qualidade de Vida
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Transtorno Depressivo
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo diagnóstico
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Estudo de etiologia
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Estudo observacional
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Estudo de prevalência
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Estudo prognóstico
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Pesquisa qualitativa
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Fatores de risco
Aspecto:
Preferência do paciente
Limite:
Adolescente
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Criança
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Feminino
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Humanos
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Masculino
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Braz. J. Psychiatry (São Paulo, 1999, Impr.)
Assunto da revista:
Psiquiatria
Ano de publicação:
2014
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
Brasil
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA)/BR