Journal article
Youth with chronic health problems: how do they fare in main-stream mentoring programs?
Abstract
BackgroundYouth 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.MethodsYouth newly enrolled in BBBS were classified by health status (one or more chronic physical health problems without activity limitation, …
Authors
Lipman EL; DeWit D; DuBois DL; Larose S; Erdem G
Journal
BMC Public Health, Vol. 18, No. 1,
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
12 2018
DOI
10.1186/s12889-017-5003-3
ISSN
1472-698X