Psychosocial problems among the school children of working and non- working mothers

Koirala, Parashar; Subba, Ramesh; Lopchan, Milan

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“…A previous cross-sectional study in Hetauda, Nepal, showed that 134 (17.03%) were suffering from psychosocial problem [ 11 ]. Another descriptive comparative study in Bharatpur also revealed that school children of nonworking mothers 11.7% had slightly more psychosocial problems than working mothers 8.3% [ 15 ]. A similar finding revealed a cross-sectional study in Pune which showed that 328 (15.2%) children were found to be at risk of psychosocial problems [ 16 ].…”

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“…Findings of previous descriptive comparative study in Bharatpur showed that internalizing problems were found equal (13.3%) in children of working and nonworking mothers whereas attention problems were slightly higher in the school children of working mothers (11.7%) than school children of nonworking mothers (10.0%). Externalizing problems were found slightly higher in the respondents of nonworking mothers (8.3%) than children of working mothers (5.0%) [ 15 ]. Findings of another study in urban and rural areas of Dehradun showed that anxiety and conduct disorders were more common among adolescents in rural area (11.0% and 13.0%, respectively) while depression was more common among adolescents in urban area (26.0%) [ 9 ].…”

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Psychosocial Problems among School Going Adolescents in Nepal

Timalsina¹,

Kafle²,

Timalsina

2018

Psychiatry Journal

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Background Psychosocial problems refer to the difficulties faced by adolescents in different areas of personal and social functioning. Adolescents are vulnerable to psychosocial problems because of physical and physiological changes that occur in their body during this developmental stage. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify psychosocial problems among school going adolescents in Nepal. Methods A cross-sectional descriptive study was adopted. Nonprobability convenient sampling technique was used for selecting 287 adolescents. Ethical approval was taken from Nepal Health Research Council and self-administered structured questionnaire was used for data collection. Data collection was done in 2016. Descriptive statistics and chi-square test were used to analyze the data. Results The findings of this study show that 12.9 percent of adolescents had psychosocial problems. While categorizing psychosocial problems, the adolescents had internalizing problems (44.6%), attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) (25.8%), and externalizing problems (4.2%). There is association of age group and parent's marital status with psychosocial problems. Conclusion It is concluded that psychosocial problems (i.e., internalizing problems, ADHD, and externalizing problems) were prevalent among Nepalese school adolescents. Adolescents' age group and parent's marital status are associated with psychosocial problems. This study recommended that school authority, health professionals, and other professional related to child health and mental health should play an important role for the prevention and earlier recognition of and intervention for psychosocial problems.

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Psychosocial Problems among School Going Adolescents in Nepal

Timalsina¹,

Kafle²,

Timalsina

2018

Psychiatry Journal

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“…We have found that 33.3% of adolescents had psychosocial problems. Several studies from Nepal and India found psychosocial problems among 15-41% of adolescents [4,7,[12][13][14][15]. Such findings suggest a vulnerability of this population to mental health problem and a need for robust school-based mental health programs.…”

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Mental Health Status among Adolescents of High Schools: A Cross-sectional Study

Dass

Kandangwa²,

Pokharel

2021

JBPKIHS

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Background: Adolescents are prone to develop various psychosocial problems with a long-standing impact. We aimed to investigate the mental health status among adolescents from high schools in Dharan sub-metropolitan city. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, we enrolled 150 adolescents from two different schools of Dharan, using a stratified random sampling technique. The Pediatric Symptoms Checklist for Youth was used to assess their mental health status. A score of 30 or more was considered as a mental health problem. Poverty, family dispute, punishment, and personal and family history of a psychiatric condition were considered as potential predictors of mental health problem. The chi-square test was applied to identify the predictors of mental health problem. Results: The final analysis included 141 samples. More than 60% of the students belonged to the age group 13-15 years, and 52.5% were females. About 59.6% were Janajatis, and 61% were Hindus. The majority (63.8%) were living below the poverty line. The majority (83.7%) had no dispute in the family. All the students had received punishment, and 51.1% had received it at home. One-third of the students had mental health problem. The presence of mental health problem was significantly associated with nuclear family status (p = 0.04), and history of a family dispute (p = 0.04). Conclusion: Mental health problem was common among adolescents, and it was associated with the nuclear family structure and the presence of family dispute.

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“…4,5 Some adolescents are particularly vulnerable to poor health and developmental outcomes as a result of individual and environmental factors. 6 Various Studies conducted in different parts of the world shows that prevalence of psychosocial problems among adolescents' ranges from 12% to 45%. 3,4,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] There are very limited studies conducted in similar settings on psychosocial problems in Dang and detecting these in the early adolescence can be fruitful for the quality of life of the individual.…”

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Psychosocial problems among school going adolescents in Ghorai sub metropolitan city of Dang

Devkota¹,

Adhikari²,

Ghimire³

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JCMC

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Background: A psychosocial problem is a mental illness caused or influenced by life experiences, as well as maladjusted cognitive and behavioral processes. Psychosocial problems i.e. internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders and substance abuse are more prevalent among adolescents because of their rapid physical and physiological changes that occur in their body during this stage. The aim of the study was to identify the magnitude of psychosocial problems among school-going adolescents. Methods: Present study was a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in the ward no. 15 of Ghorahi sub metropolitan city of Dang District, Nepal. A total of 325 adolescents were chosen from multi-staged random sampling. Pre-tested self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Part I and part II of questionnaire was self-constructed and Part III was adopted from standard tool of Youth Pediatric Symptoms Checklist. Descriptive (percentage, frequency, interquartile range and minimum and maximum values) and inferential analysis (chi-square test) was done through this IBM SPSS software version 20. Results: The prevalence of psychosocial problems among school going adolescents was 26.8%. Socio-demographic characteristics such as age, ethnicity, occupational status of respondent’s father and mother were found to be significantly associated with psychosocial problems. The relation with teacher and academic grade of respondent were found to be highly associated with psychosocial problems. Conclusions: The study reported an alarming situation of psychosocial problems among adolescent students in Nepal where more than one quarter of participants found having psychosocial problems. The study may suggest the need of proper parenting and maintenance of an appropriate level of teacher-student relationship.

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Psychosocial problems among the school children of working and non- working mothers

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Psychosocial Problems among School Going Adolescents in Nepal

Psychosocial Problems among School Going Adolescents in Nepal

Mental Health Status among Adolescents of High Schools: A Cross-sectional Study

Psychosocial problems among school going adolescents in Ghorai sub metropolitan city of Dang

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