TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Lasting effects of residential mobility during childhood on psychopathology among Chinese University students
JO  - BMC psychiatry
A1  - Zhang, Yingzhe
A1  - Coid, Jeremy
A1  - Liu, Xiang
A1  - Zhang, Yamin
A1  - Sun, Huan
A1  - Li, Xiaojing
A1  - Tang, Wanjie
A1  - Wang, Qiang
A1  - Deng, Wei
A1  - Zhao, Liansheng
A1  - Ma, Xiaohong
A1  - Meng, Yajing
A1  - Li, Mingli
A1  - Wang, Huiyao
A1  - Chen, Ting
A1  - Lv, Qiuyue
A1  - Guo, Wanjun
A1  - Li, Tao
SP  - e45
EP  - e45
VL  - 21
IS  - 1
N2  - 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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1471-244X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-03018-9
ID  - ref1
ER  -