M J Kittleson, K A DeBarr
Status of the general health education courses in U.S. colleges and universities
The Journal of school health
study aimed investigate association childspecific household material deprivation depression among elementary middle school students japan used crosssectional data 10505 10008 students fifthgrade elementary school students g5 secondgrade middle school students g8 respectively caregivers data collected august september 2016 4 municipalities tokyo july november 2017 23 municipalities hiroshima prefecture caregivers completed questionnaires including household income material deprivation children completed childspecific material deprivation depression status using japanese version birleson depression selfrating scale children dsrsc explore associations logistic regression used conducting multiple imputation missing data 142 g5 students 236 g8 students dsrsc scores equal 16 denoting risk depression found household equivalent income associated childhood depression g5 g8 students adjusted material deprivations least one item household material deprivation significantly associated depression g8 students 119 ci 100 141 g5 children childspecific material deprivation 5 items significantly associated depression age groups g5 153 ci 125 188 g8 145 ci 122 173 future research child mental health needs consider childrens perspectives especially material deprivation young children