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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