Mental health status of the pupils from Grade Four and Fivein Jiading District / 预防医学

ABSTRACT

Objective @#To investigate the mental health status of the pupils from Grade Four and Five in Jiading District of Shanghai, and to provide evidence for mental health intervention.@*Methods @# All the students from Grade Four and Five in Jiading District, Shanghai were selected as survey objects. The MHT was used to evaluate their mental health status, and the influencing factors of mental health problems were analyzed by multivariate logistic regression model.@*Results @#A total of 3 788 questionnaires were issued, of which 3 100 ones were valid and the effective rate was 81.84%. The detection rate of mental health problems was 17.06%. The detection rates of impulse tendency, terror tendency, physical symptoms, sensitivity tendency, self-blame tendency, loneliness tendency, anxiety towards people and learning anxiety were 11.77%, 15.55%, 12.97%, 16.19%, 10.10%, 4.81%, 13.16% and 14.00%, respectively. The results of multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that female students ( OR=1.617,95%CI 1.325-1.974 ) , poor self-rated appearance ( OR=3.683, 95%CI 2.428-5.586 ) ,only one or two friends ( OR=1.806, 95%CI 1.342-2.428 ) , poor academic performance ( OR=1.626, 95%CI 1.167-2.267 ) , primary school education or below of mother ( OR=1.539, 95%CI 1.107-2.139 ) general or poor relationship with mother ( OR=1.785, 95%CI 1.303-2.444 ) or father ( OR=1.745, 95%CI 1.336-2.280 ) were risk factors for mental health problems. @*Conclusion @#The fourth-to fifth-grade primary school students in Jiading District of Shanghai have high detection rate of psychological problems. Gender, the number of friends, academic performance, education level of mother and the relation with parents are associated.