PREVALENCE AND COPING STRATEGIES OF DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND STRESS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL ADOLESCENTS: A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY
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Adolescents, Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Coping strategies/mechanism
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Background: Across the globe, Students experience more psychiatric symptoms than ever, and most of them are brought on related to pressure from teachers, peer, parents and examinations etc. and these symptoms are the primary factors causing disability in adolescents. At the end, this study was conducted to determine prevalence of depression, stress, anxiety among high school adolescents and to access their coping strategies.Materials and methods: In this cross-sectional study, a total of 430 secondary school adolescents, within the age range of 13–17 years were included. The reliability, anonymity and confidentiality were maintained. Moreover SPAS, DAS, PSS and cope Scales were used individually for measuring the Stress, Depression, Anxiety and Coping mechanism respectively having Yes/No questions.Results: The prevalence of stress, depression and anxiety were found to be 76%, 57.7% and 2.8% respectively. Most of the students follow Avoidance coping strategy to cope with these psychiatry symptoms. Conclusion:This study demonstrated that stress and anxiety are less when compared with depression among high school adolescents. This research also revealed that psychiatric symptoms are significantly influenced by gender, Class, family influential factors, type of educational institution and socio-demographic factors
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P.Sreekanth
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Santhiram College of Pharmacy, Nandyal-518112. Andhrapradesh-India
M.Poojitha
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Santhiram College of Pharmacy, Nandyal-518112. Andhrapradesh-India.
G.Bharath Kumar
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Santhiram College of Pharmacy, Nandyal-518112. Andhrapradesh-India.
Dr.R.E.Ugandar
Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Santhiram College of Pharmacy, Nandyal.Andhrapradesh-India
Venkata Sai Krishna Setlem
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Santhiram College of Pharmacy, Nandyal-518112. Andhrapradesh-India.
Dr.VishnuPrasad Pottipadu
Department of Psychiatry, Santhiram Medical College & General Hospital, Nandyal 518501. Andhrapradesh-India.
Dr.Nagashekhara Molugulu
School of Pharmacy,Monash University Malaysia Campus,Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Bandar Sunway, 47500,Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.
Sasikala Chinnappan
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCSI University, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur 56000, Malaysia.