Yingzhe Zhang1,2,3,4, Jeremy Coid1,2,3, Xiang Liu4, Yamin Zhang1,2,3, Huan Sun1,2,3, Xiaojing Li1,2,3, Wanjie Tang5, Qiang Wang1,2,3, Wei Deng1,2,3, Liansheng Zhao1,2,3, Xiaohong Ma1,2,3, Yajing Meng1,2,3, Mingli Li1,2,3, Huiyao Wang1,2,3, Ting Chen1, Qiuyue Lv1,2,3, Wanjun Guo1,2,3, Tao Li6,7,8,9. 1. Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 28 Dianxin South street, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China. 2. West China Brain Research Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. 3. Mental Health Education Center, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. 4. West China School of Public Health and West China Fourth Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. 5. Centre for Psychology Education and Consultation, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. 6. Mental Health Center and Psychiatric Laboratory, the State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 28 Dianxin South street, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, China. xuntao26@hotmail.com. 7. West China Brain Research Center, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. xuntao26@hotmail.com. 8. Mental Health Education Center, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. xuntao26@hotmail.com. 9. Centre for Psychology Education and Consultation, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. xuntao26@hotmail.com.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Residential mobility during childhood increases risk of psychopathology in adulthood and is a common experience among Chinese children. This study investigated associations between number and age of first move, etiological risk factors for psychopathology, and common mental disorders in adolescence and early adulthood. METHODS: The sample included 39,531 undergraduates (84.5% completion rate) age 15-34 years in their first year at a Chinese comprehensive university in annual cross-sectional surveys during 2014-2018. Common mental disorders measured using standardised self-report instruments. Data analysed using logistic regression models and interaction analysis. RESULTS: Half of all students experienced one or more moves of residence before age 15 years. Outcomes of Depression, Somatisation, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Hallucinations and Delusions, and Suicide attempts showed dose-response relationships with increasing number of moves. Other etiological risk factors, including childhood disadvantage and maltreatment, showed similar dose response relationships but did not confound associations with mobility. We found interactions between reporting any move and being a left-behind child on depression and somatisation; number of moves and younger age at first move on depression, somatisation, suicide attempts and hallucinations and delusions. CONCLUSIONS: Residential mobility in childhood is associated with psychopathology in adulthood and this association increases with increasing number of moves. Mobility is also associated with childhood disadvantage and maltreatment but associations with psychopathology are independent of these factors. Multiplicative effects were shown for multiple moves starting at a younger age and if the participant had been a left-behind child.
BACKGROUND: Residential mobility during childhood increases risk of psychopathology in adulthood and is a common experience among Chinese children. This study investigated associations between number and age of first move, etiological risk factors for psychopathology, and common mental disorders in adolescence and early adulthood. METHODS: The sample included 39,531 undergraduates (84.5% completion rate) age 15-34 years in their first year at a Chinese comprehensive university in annual cross-sectional surveys during 2014-2018. Common mental disorders measured using standardised self-report instruments. Data analysed using logistic regression models and interaction analysis. RESULTS: Half of all students experienced one or more moves of residence before age 15 years. Outcomes of Depression, Somatisation, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Hallucinations and Delusions, and Suicide attempts showed dose-response relationships with increasing number of moves. Other etiological risk factors, including childhood disadvantage and maltreatment, showed similar dose response relationships but did not confound associations with mobility. We found interactions between reporting any move and being a left-behind child on depression and somatisation; number of moves and younger age at first move on depression, somatisation, suicide attempts and hallucinations and delusions. CONCLUSIONS: Residential mobility in childhood is associated with psychopathology in adulthood and this association increases with increasing number of moves. Mobility is also associated with childhood disadvantage and maltreatment but associations with psychopathology are independent of these factors. Multiplicative effects were shown for multiple moves starting at a younger age and if the participant had been a left-behind child.
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