"青春期年龄差距":评估青春期时间及其与心理健康问题的关联的新方法
Niousha Dehestani1,2, Nandita Vijayakumar3,4, Gareth Ball4,5
1Deakin University, Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Geelong, VIC, Australia. newsha.dehestani.95@gmail.com.
Molecular psychiatry
|December 5, 2023
概括
早期青春期的时间与青少年心理健康问题增加有关. 一个使用物理发展指标的新机器学习模型显示,更早的青春期时间与更高的心理健康症状相关.
科学领域:
- 青少年健康 青少年健康
- 发展心理学是发展心理学.
- 心理健康研究 心理健康研究
背景情况:
- 青春期的时间是青少年心理健康问题的关键风险因素.
- 现有的青春期计时措施可能无法完全捕捉其复杂性.
- 了解青春期发育和心理健康之间的联系对于早期干预至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 使用机器学习开发和验证一种新的,非线性测量青春期时间.
- 调查这种新的青春期计时措施与青少年心理健康问题之间的关联.
- 为了比较不同青春期计时模型 (物理,荷尔蒙,组合) 的预测准确度.
主要方法:
- 使用了青少年大脑认知发展 (ABCD) 队列 (N≈9900,9-13岁).
- 雇佣监督机器学习来开发三个模型,根据身体发育,激素水平 (,脱水氨[DHEA]) 或两者都预测时间表年龄.
- 评估了模型准确性,并检查了青春期时间预测和心理健康结果之间的关联.
主要成果:
- 新的非线性青春期时间模型显示,与线性回归相比,年龄预测的准确性更高.
- 纳入身体发展特征的模型解释了心理健康结果的最大差异.
- 早期的青春期时间,如身体成熟所示,与增加的心理健康症状有显著的关联.
结论:
- 一个新的非线性机器学习模型有效地捕捉了青春期的时间.
- 青春期成熟的物理测量比荷尔蒙测量更强烈地与青少年心理健康问题相关.
- 早期的青春期时间是青春期早期不良心理健康结果的重要风险因素.
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