Psychosocial Problems among adolescent students: an exploratory study in the central region of nepal

Type Journal Article - Frontiers in public health
Title Psychosocial Problems among adolescent students: an exploratory study in the central region of nepal
Author(s)
Volume 4
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2016
URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4972834/
Abstract
Background

Recently, schools have drawn attention as dominant factors for psychosocial development of students. Nepal, however, has limited studies on this issue. This study sought to assess the prevalence of psychosocial dysfunction and its association with family-related factors among adolescent Nepali students.

Methods

Taking 787 adolescent students from 13 schools of Hetauda municipality, we accomplished a cross-sectional study. A set of structured questionnaire and Y-PSC was adopted to collect data, which were analyzed using SPSS with 95% of confidence interval.

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