Behavioural and Emotional Problems in Childhood
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (18 April 2023) | Viewed by 8510
Special Issue Editors
Interests: behavioural problems; criminal behaviour; cross-cohort comparisons; structural equation modelling; mediation analyses; causal inference
Interests: depression and anxiety; suicide and self-harm; LGBTQ+ mental health; whole-school interventions; randomized controlled trials; longitudinal datasets; causal inference
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Behavioural and emotional problems (including symptoms of conduct and oppositional defiant disorder and symptoms of anxiety and depression) often begin during childhood and can have long-lasting, negative consequences. Successful public health interventions rely upon identifying modifiable risk factors or mediators that may lie on the causal pathway to later adverse outcomes. So far, most research has been conducted in high-income countries and much less is known about childhood behavioural and emotional problems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Additionally, there is little evidence on how prevalence, risk factors and outcomes vary according to ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status or other characteristics that may lead to inequalities. Evidence is also lacking on whether risk factors/outcomes reflect causal relationships or are explained by biases that can arise in observational studies. Finally, we do not have a good understanding of modifiable mechanisms that lie on the causal pathway between early-life risk factors and childhood behavioural and emotional problems, or between childhood problems and later adverse outcomes.
This Special Issue invites research on prevalence, risk factors, consequences, and prevention of behavioural and emotional problems in childhood. We particularly encourage research with a focus on any of the following:
- An international perspective, particularly research using data from LMICs;
- Inequalities according to ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status or other characteristics;
- Causal inference designs or methods;
- Linked administrative data;
- Modifiable mechanisms.
Dr. Gemma Hammerton
Dr. Gemma Lewis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- behavioural problems
- emotional problems
- childhood
- low- and middle-income countries
- cross-cohort comparisons
- inequalities
- causal inference
- data linkage
- mechanisms
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