Background. Psychosocial problems refer to the difficulties faced by adolescents in different areas of personal and social functioning.\nAdolescents are vulnerable to psychosocial problems because of physical and physiological changes that occur in their body\nduring this developmental stage. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify psychosocial problems among school going\nadolescents in Nepal. Methods. A cross-sectional descriptive study was adopted. Nonprobability convenient sampling technique\nwas used for selecting 287 adolescents. Ethical approval was taken from Nepal Health Research Council and self-administered\nstructured questionnaire was used for data collection. Data collection was done in 2016. Descriptive statistics and chi-square test\nwere used to analyze the data. Results.The findings of this study show that 12.9 percent of adolescents had psychosocial problems.\nWhile categorizing psychosocial problems, the adolescents had internalizing problems (44.6%), attention deficit hyperactive\ndisorder (ADHD) (25.8%), and externalizing problems (4.2%). There is association of age group and parent�s marital status\nwith psychosocial problems. Conclusion. It is concluded that psychosocial problems (i.e., internalizing problems, ADHD, and\nexternalizing problems) were prevalent among Nepalese school adolescents. Adolescents� age group and parent�s marital status are\nassociated with psychosocial problems. This study recommended that school authority, health professionals, and other professional\nrelated to childhealthandmental health shouldplay animportant role for the prevention and earlier recognition of and intervention\nfor psychosocial problems.
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