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Bharat Mishra* David Banji, Kamal Saju, Johnson V. Babu, Delphina V Joseph, G.V Nagaraju

Adolescents, Parenting, Social disparities, Mental health

ABSTRACT

Psychological distress among adolescents in India remains a meager research domain owing to the lack of proper resources & research tools. The states like Kerala and others, where the significant number of children are not staying regularly with their parents, provided, the stay has been arranged with their relatives or school hostels have seen the unorganized and undervalued parenting brings the social disparity and psychological perturbation. The study have focused on identifying the prevalence of mental distress among the adolescents (11-17 years of age) & the Influence of parenting, social disparities on them, 2) Compare the prevalence rate of these disorders among different economic classes and area of their living. Cluster sampling surveys were conducted in ten schools in Ernakulum, Kerala. Five hundred adolescents with equal distribution from urban & rural areas were surveyed. Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire was used to evaluate the psychological status & the original 3-band classification was used to categorize adolescents into abnormal (17-40), borderline (14-16) & normal (0-13). Modified Kuppuswamy socioeconomic scale was used to classify the subjects into five economic classes. Parenting & Social Disparities tool was employed to correlate the Influence of parenting & social disparities with the mental distress among adolescents. The participants had high SDQ scores are 59.80%. Boys showed more prevalence than females. The urban area had more prevalence than in a rural area. The lower economic class had the high value of prevalence & the upper-middle class had the lowest prevalence. The parenting score of adolescents from urban & rural areas always had a negative correlation with SDQ scores irrespective of their economic class. Compromised parenting & social disparities found in serious conditions in Kerala, India, and lead to mental distress in adolescents. The outcome of the study indicates the inattentive and deprioritized parenting.

Keywords:

Adolescents, Parenting, Social disparities, Mental health