Low 25(OH)-vitamin D concentrations are associated with emotional and behavioral problems in German children and adolescents

• Published in: PloS one 2017-08, Vol.12 (8), p.e0183091-e0183091
• Main Authors: Husmann, Christiane, Frank, Mirjam, Schmidt, Börge, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, Antel, Jochen, Reissner, Volker, Libuda, Lars, Hebebrand, Johannes, Föcker, Manuel
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Adults; Age; Analysis; Autism; Biology and Life Sciences; Biometrics; Child; Child & adolescent psychiatry; Child Behavior Disorders - blood; Child development; Children; Children & youth; Correlation analysis; Cross-Sectional Studies; Emotional behavior; Emotions; Epidemiology; Female; Germany; Girls; Health aspects; Health informatics; Hospitals; Humans; Longitudinal studies; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Mental depression; Mental disorders; Mental health; Migration; Parents & parenting; People and Places; Physical sciences; Population (statistical); Population studies; Puberty; Ratings; Regression analysis; Regression models; Research and Analysis Methods; Social Sciences; Socioeconomics; Statistical analysis; Surveys; Teenagers; Vitamin D; Vitamin D - analogs & derivatives; Vitamin D - blood; Vitamin deficiency; Youth
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183091

Evidence has accumulated for the association between low vitamin D serum concentrations and mental health disorders in both children and adults. We performed a cross-sectional analysis in a population-based sample of children and adolescents to detect associations between 25(OH)-vitamin D serum [25(OH)D] concentrations and scores of the five Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) subscales and the total difficulties score in different age groups (age ≥3-