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A substantial proportion of adolescent mental health and behavioural difficulties can be predicted years before they arise, a new study indicates.
The research, by academics at the University of Cambridge and Royal Holloway, University of London, shows that children who experience certain behavioural challenges, like hyperactivity and anxiety, are more likely to go on to develop poor mental health in adolescence, such as emotional difficulties.
It also finds that children with behavioural difficulties are more likely to experience problems as adolescents if they come from less affluent, or disadvantaged backgrounds.
Levels of adolescent behavioural and mental health difficulties are rising. As healthcare systems worldwide struggle to cope with increasing demand, there is an urgent need to predict which adolescents are most likely to need additional support as early as possible.
Children of well-educated parents are more likely to binge drink and shoplift than those of parents who went straight into work from school, a study of about 19,000 17-year-olds has found.Researchers
White teenagers twice as likely to have taken hard drugs compared to ethnic minorities
White teens were almost three times more likely to report binge drinking than their ethnic minority peers, according to a UCL study
10 February 2021 • 6:00am
White teenagers are twice as likely to have taken hard drugs compared to ethnic minorities, new figures show, as researchers say white parents may be less strict.
Experts at University College London s (UCL) Centre for Longitudinal Studies analysed behaviours of Generation Z and found one in ten teenagers had tried hard drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy and ketamine, by the age of 17.
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Among 17-year-olds in the UK, one in 10 will have used hard drugs, such as ketamine and cocaine, a study suggests.
The University College London research also showed nearly a third of 17-year-olds had tried cannabis and more than half admitted to binge-drinking alcohol.
Almost 20,000 young people, born between 2000 and 2002, were surveyed as part of the Millennium Cohort Study.
Drug-use rates were higher among white teens than black teens.
A quarter of 17-year-olds also said they had assaulted someone, including shoving, slapping or punching another person over the previous 12 months.
But this figure had fallen by seven percentage points from when the tracking survey was last conducted, when participants were aged 14.