Mapping network connection among symptoms of anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbance in Chinese high school students.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to tremendous academic pressure, Chinese high school students suffer from severe depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances. Moreover, senior high school students commonly face more serious mental health problems than junior high school students. However, the co-occurrence and internal relationships of depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances clusters are scarcely examined among high students. Therefore, the current study inspected relationships between depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbance symptoms through network analysis and identified key symptoms bolstering the correlation and intensifying the syndromes.

Methods

A total of 13,999 junior high school students (M _age = 13.42 years, SD _age = 1.35, 50% females) and

SUBMITTER: Wang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9710521 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature