Youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs?

Ellen L. Lipman; David J. DeWit; David Dubois; Simon Larose; Gizem Erdem

doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-5003-3

doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-5003-3

Youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs?

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BMC Public Health4.50

Volume: 18, Issue: 1

Published: Jan 5, 2018

Abstract

Youth with chronic physical health problems often experience social and emotional problems. We investigate the relationship between participation in the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada community-based mentoring programs (BBBS) and youth social and mood outcomes by youth health status.Youth newly enrolled in BBBS were classified by health status (one or more chronic physical health problems without activity limitation, n = 191; one or more...