title: [Research on mental health status of 726 adolescents and its influential factors].
abstract: Mental health status of 726 adolescents and their backgrounds were investigated with Symptom Check List(SCL-90) and self-designed questionnaire. The results showed that the prevalence rate of psychological problems ranged from 6.34% to 24.93%. Among these problems, obsession led all the others. Females had higher scores in interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, phobia than males. Logistic regression analysis indicated that the major factors contributed to mental health status of adolescents were the relationship between teacher and student, father's concern with his child, only child or not, parents' expectations, personality and sex. The study provides reference source for improving the mental health status of adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Hunan Medical University, Changsha 410078.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: H Z
authors.initials: HZ
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: S Q
authors.initials: SQ
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires