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- Title
Adolescents' Depressive Symptom Experience Mediates the Impact of Long-Term Exposure to Maternal Depression Symptoms on Adolescents' Body Mass Index.
- Authors
Hsu, Amber R Cordola; Niu, Zhongzheng; Lei, Xiaomeng; Kiresich, Emily; Li, Yawen; Hwang, Wei-Chin; Xie, Bin; Cordola Hsu, Amber R
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Obesity is a cardiovascular disease risk factor and affects approximately 13.7 million U.S. children and adolescents between the ages 2 and 19 years old in 2015-2016.<bold>Purpose: </bold>To determine the relationship between children's average long-term exposure to maternal depressive symptoms age 1 month to Grade 6 and adolescents' body mass index (BMI) z-score at age 15 mediated by the adolescents' depressive symptom experience.<bold>Methods: </bold>A total of 1,364 infants and their families from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development were recruited.<bold>Results: </bold>Mediation analyses revealed a significant relationship between children's average long-term exposure to maternal depressive symptoms from age 1 month to Grade 6 and adolescents' BMI z-score at age 15 (total effect = 0.015, p = .013, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.0032, 0.027). The adolescents' experience of depressive symptoms significantly mediated this relationship (indirect effect = 0.0021, bias-corrected bootstrapped 95% CI: 0.0004, 0.0044), with this mediated relationship more pronounced in girls.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Findings indicate the possible existence of a mediating role of adolescents' depressive symptoms experience in the pathway from average long-term exposure to maternal depressive symptoms during children's early life to adolescents' elevated BMI.
- Subjects
BODY mass index; MATERNAL exposure; TEENAGERS; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors
- Publication
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2020, Vol 54, Issue 7, p510
- ISSN
0883-6612
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/abm/kaz069