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Epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in Iranian children: Protocol of a cross-sectional study in Isfahan

BACKGROUND: The present study aimed at providing comprehensive epidemiological data about the prevalence of psychological and emotional problems in a representative sample of Iranian children and evaluates the major and common determinants of parents and family environment of these problems. MATERIA...

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Autores principales: Feizi, Awat, Parsaei, Roqayeh, Heidari, Zahra, Haghighatdoost, Fahimeh, Najmi, Badroddin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10199360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37213448
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jrms.jrms_877_22
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author Feizi, Awat
Parsaei, Roqayeh
Heidari, Zahra
Haghighatdoost, Fahimeh
Najmi, Badroddin
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Parsaei, Roqayeh
Heidari, Zahra
Haghighatdoost, Fahimeh
Najmi, Badroddin
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description BACKGROUND: The present study aimed at providing comprehensive epidemiological data about the prevalence of psychological and emotional problems in a representative sample of Iranian children and evaluates the major and common determinants of parents and family environment of these problems. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in Iranian children is a cross-sectional study was conducted on 786 families and their 800 children during 2019–2021 in Isfahan, Iran. Personality traits, psychological health, marital satisfaction, individual's perceptions of his/her family and quality of life of parents were evaluated using Iranian-validated questionnaires. Various aspects of emotional, general, psychological, and sleep health as well as physical activity levels and nutritional habits of children also have been assessed using Iranian validated instruments. Data on sociodemographic characteristics representing parents and family status also have been collected. RESULTS: The mean age of parents and children was 39.5 ± 5.5 and 10.20 ± 1.90 (years), respectively. The mean duration of marriage was 16.1 ± 5.1 years and majority of parents his or her wife were at bachelor degree while parents with other degrees of education were sufficiently available in our study. The participated children were nearly equally distributed in terms of gender. A large portion (81.9%) of questionnaires about children was filled by mothers. Majority of children (62.2%) were first birth order. CONCLUSION: The current study provides comprehensive data about various psychological, emotional, and educational problems of Iranian children and new insights about family environment and parental interrelationship as key risk factors for the aforementioned problems in which may have implications for both clinical and preventive psychological health to improve individual educational and treatment efficacy and problem-solving in problematic children.
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spelling pubmed-101993602023-05-21 Epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in Iranian children: Protocol of a cross-sectional study in Isfahan Feizi, Awat Parsaei, Roqayeh Heidari, Zahra Haghighatdoost, Fahimeh Najmi, Badroddin J Res Med Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: The present study aimed at providing comprehensive epidemiological data about the prevalence of psychological and emotional problems in a representative sample of Iranian children and evaluates the major and common determinants of parents and family environment of these problems. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in Iranian children is a cross-sectional study was conducted on 786 families and their 800 children during 2019–2021 in Isfahan, Iran. Personality traits, psychological health, marital satisfaction, individual's perceptions of his/her family and quality of life of parents were evaluated using Iranian-validated questionnaires. Various aspects of emotional, general, psychological, and sleep health as well as physical activity levels and nutritional habits of children also have been assessed using Iranian validated instruments. Data on sociodemographic characteristics representing parents and family status also have been collected. RESULTS: The mean age of parents and children was 39.5 ± 5.5 and 10.20 ± 1.90 (years), respectively. The mean duration of marriage was 16.1 ± 5.1 years and majority of parents his or her wife were at bachelor degree while parents with other degrees of education were sufficiently available in our study. The participated children were nearly equally distributed in terms of gender. A large portion (81.9%) of questionnaires about children was filled by mothers. Majority of children (62.2%) were first birth order. CONCLUSION: The current study provides comprehensive data about various psychological, emotional, and educational problems of Iranian children and new insights about family environment and parental interrelationship as key risk factors for the aforementioned problems in which may have implications for both clinical and preventive psychological health to improve individual educational and treatment efficacy and problem-solving in problematic children. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10199360/ /pubmed/37213448 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jrms.jrms_877_22 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Journal of Research in Medical Sciences https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Feizi, Awat
Parsaei, Roqayeh
Heidari, Zahra
Haghighatdoost, Fahimeh
Najmi, Badroddin
Epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in Iranian children: Protocol of a cross-sectional study in Isfahan
title Epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in Iranian children: Protocol of a cross-sectional study in Isfahan
title_full Epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in Iranian children: Protocol of a cross-sectional study in Isfahan
title_fullStr Epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in Iranian children: Protocol of a cross-sectional study in Isfahan
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in Iranian children: Protocol of a cross-sectional study in Isfahan
title_short Epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in Iranian children: Protocol of a cross-sectional study in Isfahan
title_sort epidemiology of emotional and psychological problems in iranian children: protocol of a cross-sectional study in isfahan
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10199360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37213448
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jrms.jrms_877_22
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