Resilience level among adolescent children: a school-based study in Kolkata, India

Abstract

INTRODUCTIONOnce upon a time, the school days were called the best part of one's life. If we rewind back by only 2 decades, we would find children are going school with much lighter weights on their back as well as on their brain. The rat race of modern life is affecting each and every strata of our society and students are not exempted from this decadence.The unmet virtual needs of life, the gap between demand and achievement are affecting our health, to be precise, our mental health silently and the worst sufferers of this ABSTRACT Background: The rat race of modern life is affecting each and every strata of our society and adolescents are not exempted from this underlying stress. Lack of resilience in adolescents may lead to psychosocial maladaptation and psychopathology in adulthood. This study was undertaken to determine the resilience level and its possible predictors among adolescents of a Kolkata based school. Methods: This was an institution-based, observational cross-sectional study done from June-August'17 among 151 students of 7 th -9 th standards in a school of Kolkata. A pre-designed, pretested, structured, self-administered questionnaire along with CYRM-12 ('Child and Youth Resilience Measure-12') questionnaire was used. The scoring of each question was from 1-3 (higher score indicates more resilience) in CYRM-12 and in this study median attained score of 31 was taken as cut off for determining resilience level. Ethical issues were addressed. SPSS (v.16.0) was used for data analysis. Results: Among 151 students of 12-14 years, 57(37.7%) students were resilient and factors like 'class' [OR=4.01(1.85-8.67)]; 'family type Conclusions: Quality parental time for children and engagement in physical activity will help to increase resilience level and build up the coping capacity.

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