Relation of anxiety and depression to lifestyle in junior high school students
10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2017.03.011
- VernacularTitle:初中生焦虑抑郁情绪与生活方式的关系
- Author:
Yang LIU
;
Weibo ZHANG
;
Jun CAI
- Keywords:
junior high school students;
anxiety;
depression;
lifestyle;
cross-sectional studies
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
2017;31(3):235-240
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To survey the status of anxiety/depression and lifestyle among junior high school students and explore their relation to put preference for psychological health education.Methods:Totally 1597 junior high school students aged 10 to 17 years in Shang Haicity were surveyed.The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7),Patient Health Questiormaire-9 items (PHQ-9) and Chinese Adolescent Lifestyle Scale (CALS),were used to assess anxious emotion,depressive emotion and lifestyle.Results:The rates of anxious emotion and depressive emotion were 16.4％ and 17.2％ respectively among students.Scores of GAD-7 and PHQ-9 were negatively correlated with all factor scores of CALS including eating habits,sleep status,health habits,learning habits,exercise,entertainment activities,interpersonal relationships,coping style and life satisfaction (-0.57 ≤ r ≤-0.15,Ps ＜ 0.01).Multivariate stepwise regression analysis showed that the sleep status factor scores,life satisfaction and exercise factor scores of CALS could negatively predict scores of GAD-7 (β3 =-0.17,-0.15,-0.05;Ps ＜ 0.05) and health habits positively predict scores of GAD-7 (β3 =0.08,P ＜0.001).Sleep status factor scores,life satisfaction factor scores and eating habits factor scores could negatively predict scores of PHQ-9 (β3 =-0.21,-0.16,-0.06;Ps ＜ 0.05).Conclusion:It suggests that the junior high school students'depression and anxiety are related to their lifestyle.The emotion of depression and anxiety of students may be predicted by some factors in the lifestyle.
