Commentary: Sports participation at 4 years old? Thoughts on mental health-risk trajectories in the longitudinal study of Australian children - a commentary on Vella et al. (2018)

Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Judith A Crowell

Abstract

Vella and colleagues (this issue) report on children in the kindergarten cohort of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) study, using predictors from age 4 years to identify six trajectories of mental health risk from ages 4-12. Somewhat surprisingly, they find that among some predictable candidates for risk, such as sex and family income, that sports participation at age four emerges as a novel predictor of low difficulty with respect to mental health trajectories across the next 8 years. Is this a case of mens sana in corpore sano? Or is sports participation, that is, swimming, dancing, gymnastics, and team sports, a proxy for other factors? What can the various predictors and the trajectories of mental health risk from this longitudinal study tell us about interventions to reduce risk?

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Apr 10, 2020·Acta Paediatrica·Katarzyna Kostyrka-AllchorneEdmund J S Sonuga-Barke

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