Changes in the adult consequences of adolescent mental ill-health: findings from the 1958 and 1970 British birth cohorts.
Ellen Jo ThompsonMarcus RichardsGeorge B PloubidisPeter FonagyPraveetha PatalayPublished in: Psychological medicine (2021)
The widening of mental health-based inequalities in midlife outcomes further supports the need to recognise that secular increases in adolescent mental health symptoms is a public health challenge with measurable negative consequences through the life-course. Increased public health efforts to minimise adverse outcomes are needed.