Relationship between adolescent depressive symptoms with childhood psychological trauma and maternal pregnancy / 中国学校卫生

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Objective@#To explore the relationship between adolescent depressive symptoms, childhood psychological trauma and maternal illness during pregnancy, so as to provide scientific busis for the development of adolescent mental health.@*Methods@#A stratified cluster random sampling method was employed to select 2 092 primary and secondary school students in Wuhan City from January to July 2022. Questionnaires were administered to investigate adolescent depressive symptoms, childhood psychological trauma, and maternal illness during pregnancy. The influencing factors of adolescent depression were analyzed.@*Results@#A total of 139 adolescents reported depressive symptoms. The childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ) score of the depression group was (57.49± 6.85 ), and the score in adolescents without depression group was (46.28±5.96)( t =21.14, P <0.05). Among the maternal diseases during pregnancy, hypertension accounted for 11.51% , diabetes 9.35%, cholestasis 7.19%, hypothyroidism/hyperthyroidism 7.91% , anemia 9.35% and viral hepatitis 3.60% in depression group, 5.79%, 4.71%, 3.64%, 3.07%, 4.30%, 1.18% in the group without depression, respectively, and the differences were statistically significant ( χ 2=7.35, 5.87, 4.42, 9.28, 7.49, 5.75, P <0.05). The proportion of academic stress in the depressed group and non-depressed group were 61.15% and 46.34%, respectively, and was statistically significant ( χ 2=16.04, P <0.05). Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that gestational hypertension ( OR=5.04, 95%CI =2.07-12.24), diabetes mellitus ( OR=4.49, 95%CI =1.85-10.91), anemia ( OR=3.68, 95%CI =1.51-8.94), high academic stress ( OR=3.52, 95%CI =1.45-8.56) and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire ( OR=4.63, 95%CI = 1.91 -11.26) were the risk factors of depression in adolescents ( P <0.05).@*Conclusion@#Adolescent depression may be due to high academic stress, childhood psychological trauma, maternal hypertension, diabetes, thyroid dysfunction and anemia in pregnancy. It is suggested that relevant departments provide appropriate measures to reduce the risk of adolescent depression.