Prevalence and associated factors of psychological distress among a national sample of in-school adolescents in Morocco.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The goal of the study was to estimate the prevalence and correlates of psychological distress among adolescent school children in Morocco.

Methods

Nationally representative cross-sectional data were analysed from 6745 adolescents (15 years median age) that responded to questions on a two-item measure of psychological distress from "2016 Morocco Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS)."

Results

The prevalence of psychological distress was 23.3, 18.0% among males and 29.2% among females. In adjusted logistic regression analysis, female sex, older age, bullying victimization, infrequently physically attacked, frequent participation in physical fights, having no close friends, frequent experience of hunger, parental emotional neglect, parental disrespe

SUBMITTER: Pengpid S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7526246 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature