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Increasing Trends in Mental Health Problems Among Urban Chinese Adolescents: Results From Repeated Cross-Sectional Data in Changsha 2016–2020

This study performed a repeated cross-sectional analysis to explore possible trends in mental health problems among Chinese adolescents over the years of 2016–2020. A total of 2,837 different seventh-grade students were surveyed in three waves from a junior high school in Changsha city, Hunan provin...

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Autores principales: Wu, Zhipeng, Wang, Biao, Xiang, Zhibiao, Zou, Zhulin, Liu, Zhening, Long, Yicheng, Chen, Xudong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8907598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35284369
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.829674
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author Wu, Zhipeng
Wang, Biao
Xiang, Zhibiao
Zou, Zhulin
Liu, Zhening
Long, Yicheng
Chen, Xudong
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Wang, Biao
Xiang, Zhibiao
Zou, Zhulin
Liu, Zhening
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Chen, Xudong
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description This study performed a repeated cross-sectional analysis to explore possible trends in mental health problems among Chinese adolescents over the years of 2016–2020. A total of 2,837 different seventh-grade students were surveyed in three waves from a junior high school in Changsha city, Hunan province in China (978 in 2016, 949 in 2019, and 910 in 2020) using the Mental Health Inventory of Middle School Students (MMHI-60). The results showed that obsessive-compulsive tendencies, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, academic stress, and emotional disturbance problems were significantly increased in surveyed adolescents from 2016 to 2020. Moreover, positive rates of most of these problems were significantly higher in females than males, and were significantly increased in only females. These results highlight the importance of focusing on mental health problems among urban Chinese adolescents, especially among girls.
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spelling pubmed-89075982022-03-11 Increasing Trends in Mental Health Problems Among Urban Chinese Adolescents: Results From Repeated Cross-Sectional Data in Changsha 2016–2020 Wu, Zhipeng Wang, Biao Xiang, Zhibiao Zou, Zhulin Liu, Zhening Long, Yicheng Chen, Xudong Front Public Health Public Health This study performed a repeated cross-sectional analysis to explore possible trends in mental health problems among Chinese adolescents over the years of 2016–2020. A total of 2,837 different seventh-grade students were surveyed in three waves from a junior high school in Changsha city, Hunan province in China (978 in 2016, 949 in 2019, and 910 in 2020) using the Mental Health Inventory of Middle School Students (MMHI-60). The results showed that obsessive-compulsive tendencies, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, academic stress, and emotional disturbance problems were significantly increased in surveyed adolescents from 2016 to 2020. Moreover, positive rates of most of these problems were significantly higher in females than males, and were significantly increased in only females. These results highlight the importance of focusing on mental health problems among urban Chinese adolescents, especially among girls. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8907598/ /pubmed/35284369 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.829674 Text en Copyright © 2022 Wu, Wang, Xiang, Zou, Liu, Long and Chen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Wu, Zhipeng
Wang, Biao
Xiang, Zhibiao
Zou, Zhulin
Liu, Zhening
Long, Yicheng
Chen, Xudong
Increasing Trends in Mental Health Problems Among Urban Chinese Adolescents: Results From Repeated Cross-Sectional Data in Changsha 2016–2020
title Increasing Trends in Mental Health Problems Among Urban Chinese Adolescents: Results From Repeated Cross-Sectional Data in Changsha 2016–2020
title_full Increasing Trends in Mental Health Problems Among Urban Chinese Adolescents: Results From Repeated Cross-Sectional Data in Changsha 2016–2020
title_fullStr Increasing Trends in Mental Health Problems Among Urban Chinese Adolescents: Results From Repeated Cross-Sectional Data in Changsha 2016–2020
title_full_unstemmed Increasing Trends in Mental Health Problems Among Urban Chinese Adolescents: Results From Repeated Cross-Sectional Data in Changsha 2016–2020
title_short Increasing Trends in Mental Health Problems Among Urban Chinese Adolescents: Results From Repeated Cross-Sectional Data in Changsha 2016–2020
title_sort increasing trends in mental health problems among urban chinese adolescents: results from repeated cross-sectional data in changsha 2016–2020
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8907598/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35284369
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.829674
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