Gonca Kurt, Hasan Uğur Serdaroğlu
Prevalence of Infectious Diseases in Children at Preschool Education Institutions and Stakeholder Opinions
Children (Basel, Switzerland)
growing evidence associates air pollution exposure various psychiatric disorders however importance earlylife eg prenatal air pollution exposure mental health youth poorly understood longitudinal studies investigated association noise pollution youth mental health examine longitudinal associations air noise pollution exposure pregnancy childhood adolescence psychotic experiences depression anxiety youths ages 13 24 years cohort study used data avon longitudinal study parents children ongoing longitudinal birth cohort founded 1991 1993 southwest england united kingdom cohort includes 14 000 infants due dates april 1 1991 december 31 1992 subsequently followed adulthood data analyzed october 29 2021 march 11 2024 novel linkage completed 2020 performed link highresolution 100 m2 estimates nitrogen dioxide no2 fine particulate matter 25 pm25 noise pollution home addresses pregnancy 12 years age psychotic experiences depression anxiety measured ages 13 18 24 years logistic regression models controlled key individual family arealevel confounders cohort study included 9065 participants mental health data sample size varying parameter 514 4657 9051 female 195 1544 7910 reported psychotic experiences 114 947 8344 reported depression 97 811 8398 reported anxiety mean sd age followup 245 08 years covariate adjustment iqr increases 072 gm3 pm25 levels pregnancy adjusted odds ratio aor 111 95 ci 104119 p 002 childhood aor 109 95 ci 100110 p 04 associated elevated odds psychotic experiences pregnancy pm25 exposure also associated depression aor 110 95 ci 102118 p 01 higher noise pollution exposure childhood aor 119 95 ci 103138 p 02 adolescence aor 122 95 ci 102145 p 03 associated elevated odds anxiety longitudinal cohort study earlylife air noise pollution exposure prospectively associated 3 common mental health problems adolescence young adulthood degree specificity terms pollutanttimingoutcome associations interventions reduce air noise pollution exposure eg clean air zones could potentially improve population mental health replication using quasiexperimental designs needed shed light underlying causes associations