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Anxiety symptoms in regular school students in Mumbai City, India

AIM: Anxiety disorders usually remain undiagnosed in school students owing to the internalized nature of their symptoms. The present study was conducted with the primary objective of evaluating the prevalence of anxiety symptoms in school students in Mumbai. A secondary objective was to assess the i...

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Autores principales: Karande, S, Gogtay, NJ, Bala, N, Sant, H, Thakkar, A, Sholapurwala, R
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5954820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29692400
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_445_17
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author Karande, S
Gogtay, NJ
Bala, N
Sant, H
Thakkar, A
Sholapurwala, R
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description AIM: Anxiety disorders usually remain undiagnosed in school students owing to the internalized nature of their symptoms. The present study was conducted with the primary objective of evaluating the prevalence of anxiety symptoms in school students in Mumbai. A secondary objective was to assess the impact of variables (age, gender, presence of sibling, and type of school curriculum or school) on anxiety symptoms. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Study cases (8–15 year olds) were recruited by nonprobability sampling from four English-medium schools. Anxiety was measured using Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS)-child self-report questionnaire. T-scores (total and subscales) were calculated and cut-off scores of >60 were considered as significant. RESULTS: Symptoms of overall anxiety were present in 10.8% (53/493) of the students. Older students (12–15 year olds) had greater odds of having overall anxiety symptoms (crude OR = 4.36, 95% CI 2.27 to 8.39, P < 0.0001). Symptoms of all anxiety disorders were present in the 493 participants, with obsessions/compulsions and fears of physical injury being the most common (in 29.6% and 27.2%, respectively). Older students and boys had greater odds of having obsessions/compulsions (crude OR = 2.32, 95% CI 1.56 to 3.44, P < 0.0001; and crude OR = 1.54, 95% CI 1.04 to 2.27, P = 0.035, respectively]. Students with sibling (s) had greater odds of having fears of physical injury (crude OR = 0.48, 95% CI 0.30 to 0.78, P = 0.003). CONCLUSIONS: There is an urgent need to screen school students in our city for anxiety disorders.
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spelling pubmed-59548202018-06-01 Anxiety symptoms in regular school students in Mumbai City, India Karande, S Gogtay, NJ Bala, N Sant, H Thakkar, A Sholapurwala, R J Postgrad Med Original Article AIM: Anxiety disorders usually remain undiagnosed in school students owing to the internalized nature of their symptoms. The present study was conducted with the primary objective of evaluating the prevalence of anxiety symptoms in school students in Mumbai. A secondary objective was to assess the impact of variables (age, gender, presence of sibling, and type of school curriculum or school) on anxiety symptoms. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Study cases (8–15 year olds) were recruited by nonprobability sampling from four English-medium schools. Anxiety was measured using Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS)-child self-report questionnaire. T-scores (total and subscales) were calculated and cut-off scores of >60 were considered as significant. RESULTS: Symptoms of overall anxiety were present in 10.8% (53/493) of the students. Older students (12–15 year olds) had greater odds of having overall anxiety symptoms (crude OR = 4.36, 95% CI 2.27 to 8.39, P < 0.0001). Symptoms of all anxiety disorders were present in the 493 participants, with obsessions/compulsions and fears of physical injury being the most common (in 29.6% and 27.2%, respectively). Older students and boys had greater odds of having obsessions/compulsions (crude OR = 2.32, 95% CI 1.56 to 3.44, P < 0.0001; and crude OR = 1.54, 95% CI 1.04 to 2.27, P = 0.035, respectively]. Students with sibling (s) had greater odds of having fears of physical injury (crude OR = 0.48, 95% CI 0.30 to 0.78, P = 0.003). CONCLUSIONS: There is an urgent need to screen school students in our city for anxiety disorders. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5954820/ /pubmed/29692400 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_445_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Postgraduate Medicine http://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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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29692400
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