title: Childhood chronic physical condition, self-reported health, and life satisfaction in adolescence.
abstract: The present study investigates the prevalence and type of chronic conditions at 7 years of age-with special reference to atopic conditions-and their longitudinal associations with self-reported health and life satisfaction in adolescence. The data were obtained from Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 (NFBC 1986), which is a longitudinal 1-year birth cohort from an unselected, regionally defined population (n = 9,432). The present study investigated a sample of 8,036 children with data of chronic conditions at 7 years of age and a sample of 6,680 children with data of chronic conditions at 16 years of age. According to parents' report the prevalence of CC at 7 years of age was 14.8 % among boys and 13.2 % among girls, these figures being at 16 years of age 20.7 and 19.4 %, respectively. Atopic conditions were the most common chronic conditions at 7 years of age (12.7 % vs. other chronic conditions 4.7 %). Childhood chronic condition was associated with subsequent self-reported health in adolescence, but not with subsequent self-reported life satisfaction. Chronic condition at 7 years of age increased the risk of reporting health as "poor" even if the chronic condition was no longer prevalent at 16 years of age. Atopic conditions seemed to be linked with self-reported poor/moderate health more often than other chronic conditions among girls. Conclusion Childhood chronic conditions seem to affect adolescent's subjective health, but fortunately, they do not affect adolescents' subjective well-being to such an extent that it could lower their life satisfaction.
authors: Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 5000, Oulu 90014, Finland. heidmaat@mail.student.oulu.fi
authors: Heidi
authors: H
authors: Määttä
authors: Tuula
authors: T
authors: Hurtig
authors: Anja
authors: A
authors: Taanila
authors: Meri
authors: M
authors: Honkanen
authors: Hanna
authors: H
authors: Ebeling
authors: Heli
authors: H
authors: Koivumaa-Honkanen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006304:Health Status; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D006969:Hypersensitivity, Immediate / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D057566:Self Report; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
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