Original Research Article
Year: 2017 | Month: May | Volume: 7 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 71-75
Depression, Anxiety and Stress among Junior Science College Students
Sanghamitra Panda1, Ashok Kumar Dash2, Rajani Santhakumari3, Nikhat Yasmeen4, Abdul Raoof Omer Siddique5, Aiesha Durrebar Younus Khan4
1Professor, 4Assistant Professor, 5Assosciate Professor,
Department of Physiology, Shadan Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad.
2 Senior Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, Yoshoda Hospitals, Secunderabad.
3Assistant Professor, Department of physiology, Medicity Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad.
Corresponding Author: Sanghamitra Panda
ABSTRACT
Background: Adolescence is a transitional stage marked by rapid changes in physical, cognitive and emotional development. Presence of conditions like depression, anxiety and stress at this age is a matter of concern. Teen stress is an important health issue.
Aims:
To study the depression, anxiety and stress among adolescent junior science college girls.
Methods and Material: A cross sectional study was conducted in a junior science college, 240 girl students in the age group of 16 to 18 years, were recruited for the study. Among them 87 students were day scholars and 153 students were hostellers.
Depression, anxiety and stress score (DASS 21) questionnaire was used to assess depression, anxiety and stress among the students. Sleep pattern of all the participants were sought. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version17.0.
Results: The scores in the three domains viz. depression, anxiety and stress (DAS) were found to be remarkably high. Depression and anxiety was more in students compared to stress. DAS score was found to be more in hostellers viz. depression (77.11%), anxiety (75.16%) and stress (45.08%) in comparison to day scholars, depression (72.39%), anxiety (67.8%) and stress (40.22%). Average sleep duration of less than 6 hours per day was observed in both hostellers and day scholars.
Conclusions: Educational institutions need to identify the prevalence of negative mental health states among students especially high risk students and preventive measures should be undertaken to reduce the mental stress.
Key words: Adolescent students, DASS - 21, academic stress, mental health, DAS.