Journal article
Do Puerto Rican youth with asthma and obesity have higher odds for mental health disorders?
Psychosomatics (Washington, D.C.), v 53(2)
Mar 2012
PMID: 22284423
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Abstract
Island Puerto Rican (PR) youth experience disproportionately high asthma and obesity rates compared with other racial/ethnic groups on the U.S. mainland. Previous research has demonstrated associations of chronic disease with psychiatric disorders.
We examined the relationship among anxiety/depressive disorders, asthma, and obesity in an epidemiologic community sample of youth.
The sample (n = 656) was derived from the second wave of an island-wide probabilistic representative household sample of PR youth stratified and based on whether or not they had a diagnosis of asthma and/or depressive/anxiety disorder. For this study, we used the subpopulation ages 10-19 years.
Asthma and obesity were significantly related to higher odds of depressive/anxiety disorders in youth. Obesity moderated the relationship between asthma attacks and depressive/anxiety disorders. The relationship between asthma attack and higher odds for depressive/anxiety disorders was only present in the non-obese group. Among the obese, females show a significant increase from 11% to 36% in the prevalence of anxiety/depressive disorders. Asthma and obesity were highly prevalent and a significant association was found between asthma attack and depressive/anxiety disorders. The effects of asthma and obesity were not additive; the prevalence for psychiatric disorder for those having both conditions did not increase above the prevalence associated having only one of the conditions.
Future studies should consider including longitudinal designs and examine the extent to which important variables not included in this study, such as body image dissatisfaction (particularly among females), teasing, and discrimination may moderate the relationship among obesity and depressive and anxiety disorders in youth.
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- Title
- Do Puerto Rican youth with asthma and obesity have higher odds for mental health disorders?
- Creators
- Edna Acosta-Pérez - Behavioral Science Research Institute, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Science Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico. edna.acosta2@upr.eduGlorisa CaninoRafael RamírezMichael PrelipMolly MartinAlexander N Ortega
- Publication Details
- Psychosomatics (Washington, D.C.), v 53(2)
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Grant note
- R25 RR17589 / NCRR NIH HHS P60 MD002261 / NIMHD NIH HHS L60 MD003318-01 / NIMHD NIH HHS L60 MD003318 / NIMHD NIH HHS R25 RR017589 / NCRR NIH HHS R25 RR017589-04 / NCRR NIH HHS 5R01-MH69849-3 / NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH069849 / NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH069849-03 / NIMH NIH HHS P50-HL105188 / NHLBI NIH HHS 5P60 MD002261-02 / NIMHD NIH HHS P60 MD002261-02 / NIMHD NIH HHS P50 HL105188-01 / NHLBI NIH HHS P50 HL105188 / NHLBI NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000301998100008
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84861130068
- Other Identifier
- 991019296542804721
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- Psychiatry
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