Internalizing and externalizing mental health problems affect in-school adolescent's health-related quality of life in eastern Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study aimed to examine the association between mental health problems and health-related quality of life (HrQoL) among in-school adolescents 13-19 years in the Harari region, eastern Ethiopia.

Materials and methods

A cross-sectional study was conducted on 3227 in-school adolescents aged 13 to 19 using multistage sampling. The KIDSCREEN-10 questionnaire assessed health-related quality of life (HrQoL), while a self-administered version of the strength and difficulty questionnaire (SDQ) examined mental health issues. Data were double entered, validated, and cleaned using EpiData version 3.1 and analyzed using STATA 14.1. An ordinal logistic regression model investigated the link between the outcome variable and the predictors. The results were reported using an odds r

SUBMITTER: Hunduma G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9352091 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature