Open AccessAre school-going adolescents mentally healthy? Case study from Sabarkantha, Gujarat, India
Author(s) -
Tapasvi Puwar,
Sandul Yasobant,
Deepak Saxena
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_56_18
Subject(s) - strengths and difficulties questionnaire , mental health , population , medicine , public health , demography , pediatrics , psychology , psychiatry , environmental health , nursing , sociology
Mental health issues becoming the global public health challenge, especially among the youth (12-24 years of age), although they are often detected later in life. In India, the adolescent population constitutes a quarter of the country's population and burden of disease varies from 9.5 to 102/1000 population. Most of the mental health disorders remain unidentified due to negligence and ignorance of multiple factors. Keeping this in mind and lack of population-based studies with good quality for guiding the mental health policies, this study aims to document the prevalence of emotional and behavioral difficulties among adolescents in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat, India.