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Violence and mental health issues among Mexican adolescents that have considered or attempted cross-border migration

Overview of attention for article published in Cadernos de Saúde Pública, July 2017
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Title
Violence and mental health issues among Mexican adolescents that have considered or attempted cross-border migration
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Cadernos de Saúde Pública, July 2017
DOI 10.1590/0102-311x00119516
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Ruben Chavez-Ayala, Emanuel Orozco-Núñez, Marcela Sánchez-Estrada, Carlos Hernández-Girón

Abstract

The aim of this study was to estimate the role of victimization by violence among Mexican adolescents that have considered or attempted migrating to the United States, including mental health variables (emotional self-esteem, self-esteem in school, depression, suicidal ideation, and attempted suicide) as mediators of the effects. The study used a cross-sectional design with a stratified cluster sample of 13,198 adolescents from the 2nd Mexican National Survey on Exclusion, Intolerance, and Violence in public schools in 2009. The analysis used the regression models proposed by Baron & Kenny. Prevalence of having considered or attempted cross-border migration was 23.1%. Mean age was 16.36 years. Female adolescents constituted 54.9% of the sample, and 56% were lower-income. Mental health variables that acted as partial mediators were suicidal ideation (35.9%), depression (19.2%), attempted suicide (17.7%), emotional self-esteem (6.2%), and self-esteem in school (3.4%) for moderate family violence, and emotional self-esteem (17.5%) for social rejection in school and suicidal ideation (8.1%) for physical harm in school. Female adolescents showed greater impact from mediators than men in considering or having attempted cross-border migration. The study discusses the importance of incorporating the prevention of violence in the social contexts studied here and incorporating mental health in dealing with violence in adolescents and in public health programs in transit areas for illegal migrants.

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Unknown 26 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 12%
Student > Master 3 12%
Researcher 2 8%
Professor 1 4%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 15 58%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 4 15%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 12%
Social Sciences 2 8%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Chemistry 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 15 58%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 August 2017.
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#14,541,990
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#722
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#158,050
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Outputs of similar age from Cadernos de Saúde Pública
#12
of 47 outputs
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