Chronic Childhood Illness Tied To Adult Mental Health Problems [PsychologyToday.com]

Samantha Sangenito 5/15/174:00 AM

A new study has found that kids with chronic physical illness are more likely to have depression and anxiety in adulthood.

For their study, researchers at the University of Sussex and University College London reviewed data from a large number of medical studies, looking for associations between eight chronic physical illnesses in childhood, such as arthritis, asthma, and cancer, and emotional problems experienced later in life.

[For more of this story, written by Janice Wood, go to https://psychcentral.com/news/...problems/120474.html]

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