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Salud mental
Print version ISSN 0185-3325
Abstract
FAJARDO BULLON, Fernando et al. Mental health in Spanish minors. Socioeducational variables. Salud Ment [online]. 2015, vol.38, n.5, pp.329-335. ISSN 0185-3325. https://doi.org/10.17711/SM.0185-3325.2015.045.
BACKGROUND:
Research on minors' mental health is a current necessity as a way to detect, analyze and prevent possible mental disorders.
OBJECTIVE:
The goal of this study was to analyze the influence of minors' educational stage and their parents' occupational social class as risk factors for minors' mental health.
METHOD:
We used the results obtained in the National Spanish Health Survey 2006, with a sample of 5812 minors between 4 and 15 years of age. Measures associated with the independent variables were estimated through the measurement of mental health on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-parents' version).
RESULTS:
The relation between mental health and the variables occupational social class 1 (more privileged) (O.R. 0.256) and social class 2 (middle class) (O.R. 0.523) was significant (p < 0.05) in comparison with social class 3 (more disadvantaged). However, whether the minors were in pre-school (O.R. 1.138) or primary school (O.R. 1.162) was nonsignificant (p > 0.05) in comparison with secondary school.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION:
It is concluded that high and middle occupational social classes are protector factors for minors' mental health in comparison to belonging to a low occupational social class. However, being a student in pre-school or in primary school is not a risk factor for mental health in comparison to being a secondary school student.
Keywords : Mental health; child welfare; social class; educational status.