Prevalence of psychosocial problems among school going male adolescents

Ahmad, Anees; Khalique, Najam; Khan, Zulfia; Almasi‐Hashiani, Amir

doi:10.4103/0970-0218.36836

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“…This was comparable to others studies done in India 5,6 Most commonest disorder in our study was conduct disorder 2.75% which replicates the results of study done by Ahmad et al from the same country. 7 Externalizing problems were the most common disorder in this study (9.75%) which goes along the finding of Shenoy et al 8 Girls (Age group of 13 to 15) had more of internalizing behavioral (3.5%) problems whereas boys (Age group of 5 to 12) had more of externalizing problems (7.5%).…”

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Behavioral Problems in Children Attending Pediatric Outpatient Department: A Cross Sectional Study

Vedachalam¹,

Thilakan²,

Solomon³

2015

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BACKGROUND: Behavioral problems in children are one of the most common and rising problems in India. The studies of behavioral problems in children would give us data for mental health planning for children. We can identify children at risk and preventive intervention can be made at the earliest. AIMS: Aim of this study is to determine the proportion of various behavioral problems in children of age 5 to 15 years. Objectives of this study are to find the relationship between behavioral problems and socio-demographic variables and to determine the frequencies of internalizing, externalizing and other behavioral problems. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: In this cross sectional study, 400 children in the age group of 5-15 years from the pediatrics department of a tertiary care hospital were selected. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Child Behavior Check List (CBCL) was used to measure the magnitude of problem behaviors. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: Descriptive statistics, Chi-square test/Fishers exact test. RESULTS: The sample included 400 children and out of them 22% had behavioral problems. Out of them 4% of children had internalizing problems, 9.75% had externalizing problems and 8.25% had other problems (Social and attention). Regarding the frequency of psychiatric disorders, conduct disorder was the most common problem (2.75%). Externalizing problems were prevalent in males while internalizing problems were prevalent in females. There is a significant association between parent's (Deceased/Alive) status, their marital status, family history of psychiatric illness and the development of behavioral problems in children. CONCLUSION: Therefore identifying the children with behavioral problem in young age and treating them would go a long way in preventing psychiatric morbidity later life. The need for such study is very much warranted in developing countries like India where such information is limited and this study would go on to augment existing data.

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Behavioral Problems in Children Attending Pediatric Outpatient Department: A Cross Sectional Study

Vedachalam¹,

Thilakan²,

Solomon³

2015

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“…However, if we consider the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in adolescent age group which ranges from 10-19 years, with the available studies (both done in India and other countries) it is seen that the prevalence of overall psychiatric morbidity ranges from 6.7% to 31.2%. [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] This difference in the prevalence can be attributed to the inherent nature of the psychiatric disorders, the existence of stigma due to which eliciting history becomes difficult, differences in diagnostic tools used, recall bias, differences in the definition that is used to define the cases and the differences in sampling methods. The difference can also be attributed to the varying age groups, and the inclusion of both sexes in most of the studies.…”

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Association of psychiatric morbidity with quality of life among late adolescent girls: exploring the iceberg

Murthy

Smitha

Ram

et al. 2016

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…Among the mentioned studies, a variety of screening tools were used, such child behavior check list (CBCL) (20), youth self-report (YSR) (21,24), youth report of pediatric symptom checklist (22) and childhood psychopathology measurement scale (CPMS) (23). Additionally, some of the researchers used international classification of diseases-tenth edition (ICD-10) for confirmation of these diagnoses (20,22,23). The second reason for the variation was the difference in types of disorders included in the prevalence, which also leads to a lack of comparability across these studies.…”

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Implications of Psychological Morbidity on Physical Health and Behavior of Adolescents in Aligarh, India

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Background: Worldwide, 20% of children and adolescents experience a disabling mental illness, almost half of which begin by the age of 14. Puberty, also marks a transition in risks for depression and other mental disorders, psychosomatic syndromes, and antisocial behavior. The increase in stress during adolescence due to nutritional and pubertal transition may impact physical health and behavior. Objectives: The current study aimed at determining the association between psychological morbidity and nutritional status, as well as the association of psychological morbidity and physical activity, sleep duration, and dietary behavior. Methods: This study was based on a world health organization (WHO) Global School Health Survey (GSHS) conducted on 13-to 15-year-old age group. The study was held at 3 different schools of Aligarh. Strength and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) was used to measure psychological morbidity and its association with obesity, physical activity, sleep duration, and dietary behavior. Results: A total of 1456 students were included in the study and the prevalence of psychological morbidity was 9.75%. Those with psychological morbidity had higher odds for being obese (35.36), physically inactive (1.78), having sleep duration inadequacy (5.42), and poor dietary behavior (7.46) on multivariate analysis. Conclusions: Psychological problems were present in seemingly normal adolescent student population in India. Most of these students and their parents/teachers were either unaware of this problem or thought that these problems were not worthy of attention. The association of these problems with lifestyle, dietary behavior, and physical activity warrants special attention.

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Prevalence of psychosocial problems among school going male adolescents

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Behavioral Problems in Children Attending Pediatric Outpatient Department: A Cross Sectional Study

Behavioral Problems in Children Attending Pediatric Outpatient Department: A Cross Sectional Study

Association of psychiatric morbidity with quality of life among late adolescent girls: exploring the iceberg

Implications of Psychological Morbidity on Physical Health and Behavior of Adolescents in Aligarh, India

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