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Neighborhood physical disorder and common mental disorders in adolescence

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Abstract

Objective

The aim of this study is to estimate the association between observed indicators of neighborhood physical disorder and common mental disorders in adolescents.

Methods

The study population included 2506 adolescents from three Brazilian state capitals (Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, and Fortaleza) who participated in the Cardiovascular Risk Study in Adolescents (ERICA), a cross-sectional school-based study conducted in 2013–2014. Common mental disorders were assessed using the 12-item General Health Questionnaire. Measures of neighborhood physical disorder were based on the 2010 Brazilian census data and were derived using principal component analysis.

Results

Although associations were found between some exposure components and CMD, there were no clear or consistent trends across exposure quartiles.

Conclusion

Overall, there was no evidence of an association between observed indicators of neighborhood physical disorder and common mental disorders. Future studies should explore alternative tools for measuring neighborhood physical disorder to minimize the likelihood of exposure misclassification.

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Data availability

ERICA’s data are not available due to data confidentiality. All Brazilian census data are available at IBGE (https://www.ibge.gov.br).

Code availability

The code will be available upon request.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel—CAPES (finance code 001) and by the National Council of Technological and Scientific Development—CNPq.

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  1. Institute of Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Mayara Monteiro Auler, Claudia de Souza Lopes, Taísa Rodrigues Cortes & Washington Leite Junger

  2. Institute for Studies in Collective Health, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Katia Vergetti Bloch

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Conceptualisation: MMA, CSL, and WLJ. Methodology: MMA, CSL, WLJ, and TRC. Data curation: KVB and MMA; analysis: MMA. Writing—original draft: MMA and TRC. Writing—review and editing: all the authors. Approval of the final version of the manuscript: all the authors.

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Correspondence to Taísa Rodrigues Cortes.

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The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (permit 45/2008) and by the Ethical Committees of each of the selected states.

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Auler, M.M., Lopes, C.d., Cortes, T.R. et al. Neighborhood physical disorder and common mental disorders in adolescence. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 94, 631–638 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-020-01611-9

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