Citation

Liu X, Li W, Gong J, Zhang Q, Tian X, Ren JD, Xia L, Li Y, Zhan Y, Zhang JX, Chuan-Peng H, Chen J, Feng Z, Chen Z. Sci. Data 2024; 11(1): e304.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2024, Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1038/s41597-024-03130-5

PMID

38503792

Abstract

Massive increases in the risks of depressive disorders and the ensuing suicide have become the overarching menace for children/adolescents. Despite global consensus to instigate psychological healthcare policy for these children/adolescents, their effects remain largely unclear neither from a small amount of official data nor from small-scale scientific studies. More importantly, in underprivileged children/adolescents in lower-middle-economic-status countries/areas, the data collection may not be as equally accessible as in developed countries/areas, thus resulting in underrepresented observations. To address these challenges, we released a large-scale and multi-center cohort dataset (n = 249,772) showing the effects of primary psychological healthcare on decreasing depression and suicidal ideation in these children/adolescents who were underrepresented in previous studies or current healthcare systems, including unattended children/adolescents, orphans, children/adolescents in especially difficult circumstances, and "left-behind" and "single-parenting" children/adolescents. We provided all individual data recording the depressive symptoms and suicide ideation that had been collected at baseline (Oct 2022) and half-year follow-up (May 2023) from practicing this psychological healthcare system.

Language: en