Explaining US adolescent depressive symptom trends through declines in religious beliefs and service attendance

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• Alternative Title:
  J Relig Health
• Personal Author:
  Kreski, Noah T. ; Chen, Qixuan ; Olfson, Mark ; Cerdá, Magdalena ; Hasin, Deborah ; Martins, Silvia S. ; Keyes, Katherine M.
• Description:
  Over the past decade, US adolescents' depressive symptoms have increased, and changing religious beliefs and service attendance may be contributing factors. We examined the contribution of religious factors to depressive symptoms among 417,540 US adolescents (grades: 8, 10, 12), years:1991-2019, in survey-weighted logistic regressions. Among adolescents who felt religion was personally important, those who never attended services had 2.23 times higher odds of reporting depressive symptoms compared to peers attending weekly. Among adolescents who did not feel that religion was important, the pattern was reversed. Among adolescents, concordance between importance of religion and religious service attendance may lower risk of depressive symptoms. Overall, we estimate that depressive symptom trends would be 28.2% lower if religious factors had remained at 1991 levels.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Depression Humans Religion Risk Surveys And Questionnaires
• Source:
  J Relig Health. 61(1):300-326
• Pubmed ID:
  34417680
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8840960
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01DA048860/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 DA048860/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01DA037866/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 DA048853/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R49CE003094/ACL/ACL HHSUnited States/ ; R01DA048853/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R01 DA037866/DA/NIDA NIH HHSUnited States/ ; R49-CE003094/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/ ; R49 CE003094/CE/NCIPC CDC HHSUnited States/
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Volume:
  61
• Issue:
  1
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8eabdb51fe5da1e58bfd09fe43ada2821edfcb08e2b428e979c652ea34b1f76a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/114459/cdc_114459_DS1.pdf
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