Int. J. Public Health International Journal of Public Health Int. J. Public Health 1661-8564 Frontiers Media S.A. 1609116 10.3389/ijph.2025.1609116 Public Health Archive Correction Corrigendum: Three Decades of Adolescent Health: Unveiling Global Trends Across 41 Countries in Psychological and Somatic Complaints (1994–2022) Schrijvers et al. Three Decades of Adolescent Health Schrijvers Karen 1 * Cosma Alina 2 3 Potrebny Thomas 4 Thorsteinsson Einar 5 Catunda Carolina 6 Reiss Franziska 7 Hulbert Sabina 8 Kostičová Michaela 9 Melkumova Marina 10 Bersia Michela 11 Klanšček Helena Jeriček 12 Gaspar Tania 13 Dierckens Maxim 1 1 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium 2 School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 3 Olomouc University Social Health Institute, Palacky University Olomouc, Olomouc, Czechia 4 Department of Health and Functioning, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway 5 School of Psychology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia 6 Department of Social Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg 7 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany 8 Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS), University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom 9 Institute of Social Medicine and Medical Ethics, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia 10 Arabkir Medical Centre, Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, Yerevan, Armenia 11 Department of Public Health and Pediatrics, University of Torino, Torino, Italy 12 National Institute of Public Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia 13 School of Psychology and Life Sciences, SPIC/Hei-Lab/Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal *Correspondence: Karen Schrijvers, karen.schrijvers@ugent.be 23 10 2025 2025 70 1609116 22 09 2025 24 09 2025 Copyright © 2025 Schrijvers, Cosma, Potrebny, Thorsteinsson, Catunda, Reiss, Hulbert, Kostičová, Melkumova, Bersia, Klanšček, Gaspar and Dierckens. 2025 Schrijvers, Cosma, Potrebny, Thorsteinsson, Catunda, Reiss, Hulbert, Kostičová, Melkumova, Bersia, Klanšček, Gaspar and Dierckens

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 A Corrigendum on Three Decades of Adolescent Health: Unveiling Global Trends Across 41 Countries in Psychological and Somatic Complaints (1994–2022) by Schrijvers K, Cosma A, Potrebny T, Thorsteinsson E, Catunda C, Reiss F, Hulbert S, Kostičová M, Melkumova M, Bersia M, Klanšček HJ, Gaspar T and Dierckens M (2024). Int J Public Health. 69:1607774. doi: 10.3389/ijph.2024.1607774 adolescence mental health gender differences cross-national HBSC

There was a mistake in Table 3 as published. The headers in the first two rows in table three were off. The corrected Table 3 appears below.

Overview of time trend patterns for psychological and somatic complaints by gender and country for 1994–2018 and 1994–2022 (Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study, 41 countries).

Trend until 2018 Trend until 2022
Psychological complaints Somatic complaints Psychological complaints Somatic complaints
Country/region Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls Boys Girls
Armenia e — — — Linear decrease — Quadratic—U-shaped* — Quadratic—U-shaped*
Austria a Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped — Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped* Quadratic—U-shaped Linear increase* Quadratic—U-shaped*
Belgium—Flanders a — Linear increase Quadratic—inverted U-shaped Cubic Cubic* Cubic* Linear increase* Quadratic—U-shaped*
Belgium—Wallonia a Quadratic—U-shaped Quadratic—U-shaped Quadratic—inverted U-shaped Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped Cubic* —* Linear increase
Bulgaria d Quadratic—U-shaped Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped — Cubic* Linear increase Linear increase* Cubic*
Canada a — Quadratic—U-shaped — Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped* Quadratic—U-shaped — Quadratic—U-shaped*
Croatia c — Quadratic—U-shaped — — — Quadratic—U-shaped — Quadratic—U-shaped*
Czechia Linear increase Linear increase — Quadratic—inverted U-shaped Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped* — Cubic*
Denmark a Linear increase Linear increase Linear increase Linear increase Linear increase Cubic* Linear increase Cubic*
England b Cubic Linear increase — Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped* Cubic* Cubic* Cubic*
Estonia a — Cubic — Cubic Cubic* Cubic Cubic* Cubic
Finland a — Quadratic—U-shaped Linear increase Linear increase Linear increase* Quadratic—U-shaped —* Cubic*
France a Quadratic—U-shaped Quadratic—U-shaped Cubic Quadratic—inverted U-shaped Quadratic—U-shaped Quadratic—U-shaped Linear increase* Cubic*
Germany a — Quadratic—U-shaped — Linear increase Cubic* Cubic* Linear increase* Quadratic—U-shaped*
Greece b Linear decrease Cubic — — Cubic* Cubic Quadratic—U-shaped* Cubic*
Greenland a — Linear increase Linear increase Linear increase Linear increase* Linear increase Linear increase Linear increase
Hungary a — Cubic Linear increase Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped* Cubic Linear increase Cubic*
Iceland d — Linear increase — Cubic Quadratic—U-shaped* Quadratic—U-shaped* / Quadratic—U-shaped*
Ireland b — Linear increase — Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped* Quadratic—U-shaped* Linear increase* Linear increase
Israel a Linear decrease — — — —* Cubic* Quadratic–inverted U-shaped* Cubic*
Italy c — Linear increase — Linear increase Linear increase* Quadratic—U-shaped* / Linear increase
Latvia a Linear increase Linear increase Linear increase Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped* Cubic* Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped*
Lithuania a — Cubic Quadratic - inverted U-shaped — Cubic* Cubic Quadratic-inverted U-shaped Cubic*
Luxembourg d — Cubic — — Linear increase* Quadratic—U-shaped* — —
North-Macedonia c — Quadratic—U-shaped — — Linear increase* Quadratic—U-shaped Linear increase* Linear increase*
Malta c — Linear increase Linear increase Linear increase — Linear increase Linear increase Linear increase
Netherlands c — Linear increase — Cubic Quadratic—U-shaped* Quadratic—U-shaped* Linear increase* Linear increase*
Norway a — Linear increase — — Cubic* Linear increase — Linear increase*
Poland a Cubic Cubic Quadratic—inverted U-shaped Linear increase Cubic Cubic Linear increase* Cubic*
Portugal b Quadratic—U-shaped Quadratic—U-shaped — — Quadratic—U-shaped Quadratic—U-shaped / Quadratic—U-shaped*
Romania d —/ Quadratic - U-shaped — — Quadratic—U-shaped* Quadratic—U-shaped / Cubic*
Russia a — — Quadratic—inverted U-shaped Linear increase — — — —
Scotland a Quadratic—U-shaped Quadratic—U-shaped — Quadratic—U-shaped Quadratic—U-shaped Quadratic—U-shaped Linear increase* Quadratic—U-shaped
Slovakia a Linear increase — Linear increase Linear increase Cubic* Cubic* Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped*
Slovenia c Quadratic—U-shaped Cubic — Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped Cubic Linear increase* Linear increase
Spain c Linear decrease Linear decrease — Linear decrease Linear decrease Quadratic—U-shaped* — Linear decrease
Sweden a Linear increase Linear increase — Linear increase Cubic* Cubic* Linear increase* Cubic*
Switzerland b — Quadratic—U-shaped — Linear increase Linear increase* Cubic* Linear increase* Cubic*
Ukraine c Quadratic—U-shaped Cubic Cubic — — — — —
USA b Linear decrease Cubic — — — — — —
Wales a Cubic Quadratic—U-shaped — Linear increase Quadratic—U-shaped* Quadratic—U-shaped Quadratic—U-shaped* Cubic*
Total number of countries with
Linear decrease 4 1 0 2 1 0 0 1
Linear increase 6 14 7 20 8 4 19 9
Quadratic—inverted U-shaped 0 0 5 2 0 0 2 0
Quadratic—U-shaped 7 13 1 1 15 18 2 11
Cubic 3 9 2 4 10 16 2 16
None (—) 21 4 26 12 4 0 13 1

* = Different trend pattern for 1994–2018 and 1994–2022;

Data since 1994.

Data since 1998.

Data since 2002.

Data since 2006.

Data since 2010.

The first published incorrect version of the article has been updated.