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[Risk factors associated with mental health issues in adolescents: a integrative review]
Agnes Caroline Souza Pinto1, Izaildo Tavares Luna2, Adna de Araújo Sivla3
1Nurse at Instituto Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil, agnespinto@hotmail.com.
Objective:
To identify the risk factors associated with mental health issues in adolescents.
Method:
An integrative review was conducted in four databases with publications from 2007 to 2013. The terms Adolescent and Mental Health were used to search adequate articles as DeCs/MeSH bases.
Results:
Publications were found in different journals in different fields of knowledge and the quantitative research was the most frequent. The mental health issues were categorized as individual factors; drug related factors, school factors, family factors, social factors and STDs/Aids related factors. The most addressed category was individual factors, with 23 publications.
Conclusion:
The integrative review allowed to point important questions to be addressed in preventive actions by the health professional, including the nurse, to create a space that works with risk conditioning factors in adolescents for mental health aggravation.
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