Demographic and mental health assessments in the adolescent brain and cognitive development study: Updates and age-related trajectories

Deanna M Barch; Matthew D Albaugh; Arielle Baskin-Sommers; Brittany E Bryant; Duncan B Clark; Anthony Steven Dick; Eric Feczko; John J Foxe; Dylan G Gee; Jay Giedd; Meyer D Glantz; James J Hudziak; Nicole R Karcher; Kimberly LeBlanc; Melanie Maddox; Erin C McGlade; Carrie Mulford; Bonnie J Nagel; Gretchen Neigh; Clare E Palmer; Alexandra S Potter; Kenneth J Sher; Susan F Tapert; Wesley K Thompson; Laili Xie

doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101031

Demographic and mental health assessments in the adolescent brain and cognitive development study: Updates and age-related trajectories

Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2021 Dec:52:101031. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.101031. Epub 2021 Oct 29.

Authors

Deanna M Barch¹, Matthew D Albaugh², Arielle Baskin-Sommers³, Brittany E Bryant⁴, Duncan B Clark⁵, Anthony Steven Dick⁶, Eric Feczko⁷, John J Foxe⁸, Dylan G Gee⁹, Jay Giedd¹⁰, Meyer D Glantz¹¹, James J Hudziak¹², Nicole R Karcher¹³, Kimberly LeBlanc¹⁴, Melanie Maddox¹⁵, Erin C McGlade¹⁶, Carrie Mulford¹⁷, Bonnie J Nagel¹⁸, Gretchen Neigh¹⁹, Clare E Palmer²⁰, Alexandra S Potter²¹, Kenneth J Sher²², Susan F Tapert²³, Wesley K Thompson²⁴, Laili Xie²⁵

Affiliations

¹ Departments of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Psychiatry, & Radiology, Washington University, Box 1125, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130, United States. Electronic address: dbarch@wustl.edu.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Mail Stop 446 AR6, 1 South Prospect Street, Burlington, VT 05401, United States. Electronic address: matthew.albaugh@med.uvm.edu.
³ Department of Psychology, Yale University, P.O. Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520, United States. Electronic address: arielle.baskin0sommers@yale.edu.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Medical University of South Carolina, 171 Ashley Avenue, Charleston, SC 29425, United States. Electronic address: goldsmib@musc.edu.
⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, 3811O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15215, United States. Electronic address: clarkdb@upmc.edu.
⁶ Department of Psychology, Florida International University, 11200 SW 8th Street, DM 256, Miami, FL 33199, United States. Electronic address: adick@fiu.edu.
⁷ Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain, University of Minnesota, 717 Delaware SE St, Minneapolis, MN 55414, United States. Electronic address: feczk001@umn.edu.
⁸ The Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY 14642, United States. Electronic address: john_foxe@urmc.rochester.edu.
⁹ Department of Psychology, Yale University, 216 Kirtland Hall, New Haven, CT 06520, United States. Electronic address: dylan.gee@yale.edu.
¹⁰ Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive (0603), La Jolla, CA 92093-0603, United States. Electronic address: jgiedd@ucsd.edu.
¹¹ Department of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: mglantz@nida.nih.gov.
¹² Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont College of Medicine, St. Joe's Room 3213, Box 364SJ, 1 South Prospect, Burlington, VT 05401, United States. Electronic address: james.hudziak@med.uvm.edu.
¹³ Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States. Electronic address: nkarcher@wustl.edu.
¹⁴ Division of Extramural Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Kimberly, United States. Electronic address: kimberly.leblanc@nih.gov.
¹⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, 501 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, United States. Electronic address: melanie.maddox@hsc.utah.edu.
¹⁶ Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah School of Medicine, 501 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, United States. Electronic address: erin.mcglade@hsc.utah.edu.
¹⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Services, and Prevention Research, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: carrie.nulford@nih.gov.
¹⁸ Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road UHN-80R1, Portland, OR 97239, United States. Electronic address: nagelb@ohsu.edu.
¹⁹ Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1101 East Marschall Street, Box 980709, Richmond, VA 23298, United States. Electronic address: gretchen.mccandless@vcuhealth.org.
²⁰ Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive (0603), La Jolla, CA 92093-0603, United States. Electronic address: cepalmer@ucsd.edu.
²¹ Department of Psychiatry, University of Vermont College of Medicine, 1 South Prospect Street Arnold 6, Burlington, VT 05401, United States. Electronic address: alexandra.potter@uvm.edu.
²² Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, 200 South Seventh Street, Columbia, MO 65211, United States. Electronic address: SherK@missouri.edu.
²³ Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive (0603), La Jolla, CA 92093-0603, United States. Electronic address: stapert@ucsd.edu.
²⁴ Population Neuroscience and Genetics Lab, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive (0603), La Jolla, CA 92093-0603, United States. Electronic address: wkthompson@ucsd.edu.
²⁵ Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive (0603), La Jolla, CA 92093-0603, United States. Electronic address: lxie@health.ucsd.edu.

Abstract

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study of 11,880 youth incorporates a comprehensive range of measures assessing predictors and outcomes related to mental health across childhood and adolescence in participating youth, as well as information about family mental health history. We have previously described the logic and content of the mental health assessment battery at Baseline and 1-year follow-up. Here, we describe changes to that battery and issues and clarifications that have emerged, as well as additions to the mental health battery at the 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-year follow-ups. We capitalize on the recent release of longitudinal data for caregiver and youth report of mental health data to evaluate trajectories of dimensions of psychopathology as a function of demographic factors. For both caregiver and self-reported mental health symptoms, males showed age-related decreases in internalizing and externalizing symptoms, while females showed an increase in internalizing symptoms with age. Multiple indicators of socioeconomic status (caregiver education, family income, financial adversity, neighborhood poverty) accounted for unique variance in both caregiver and youth-reported externalizing and internalizing symptoms. These data highlight the importance of examining developmental trajectories of mental health as a function of key factors such as sex and socioeconomic environment.

Keywords: Assessment; Longitudinal assessment; Mental health; Psychopathology.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Brain
Child
Cognition
Female
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Mental Health*
Psychopathology*
Residence Characteristics

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