Early menarche and psychopathological symptoms in young Chinese XXXX .

@entity1 @entity148 @entity74 @entity308
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the psychopathological symptoms, suicide, and self-harming behaviors among students with early, on-time, and late menarche in high school and college and the association of early menarche with these disorders. METHODS: The design consisted of a cross-sectional study of 5597 high school students and 2768 college students. Menarche age, suboptimal mental health status, @entity148 , @entity308 , suicide, and self-harming behaviors were obtained by self-report questionnaire. RESULTS: In high school students, all the disorders occurred at significantly higher frequency in those with early menarche than in those with on-time and late menarche. In college students, only suboptimal mental health status, @entity308 , and suicidal ideation happened at significantly higher frequency in the early menarche group than in the other two groups. The college group had a lower frequency of all the disorders than the high school group for all three groups of @entity1 , that is, with early, on-time, or late menarche. In a multivariate logistic regression model, early menarche persisted as a risk factor for all the disorders after other factors were controlled. CONCLUSIONS: Psychopathological symptoms, suicide, and self-harming behaviors are more common in early menarche students than in on-time and late menarche students. The effects of early @entity74 might dissipate over time. Early menarche might serve as a predictor for the disorders in Chinese @entity1 .
