Risk factors associated with mental health issues in adolescents: a integrative review

• Main Authors: Agnes Caroline Souza Pinto, Izaildo Tavares Luna, Adna de Araújo Sivla, Patrícia Neyva da Costa Pinheiro, Violante Augusta Batista Braga, Ângela Maria Alves e Souza
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-06-01
• Series: Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP
• Subjects: Adolescente; Salud mental; Factores de riesgo; Revisión
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0080-62342014000300555&lng=en&tlng=en

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.