Prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms and its relationship with bullying and violent behaviors among middle school students in Beijing
Objective To investigate the prevalence of depression and anxiety and its relationship with bullying and violent be-haviors among middle school students in Beijing,so as to provide a scientific basis for promoting the mental health of middle school students.Methods A total of 18 379 junior high school,general high school,and vocational high school students from 16 districts of Beijing were selected by stratified cluster random sampling from September to November,2023.The x2 test was used to analyze the depression or anxiety symptom and injury-related behaviors such as bullying among middle school students.Logistics regression was used to analyze the correlation between depression or anxiety symptom and injury correlation behaviors among middle school students.Results The detection rates of depression symptoms and anxiety symptoms were 18.2％and 8.6％among middle school students in Beijing,and the comorbidity was 7.6％.The reporting rate of school bullying was 3.3％.The results of Logistic regres-sion showed that girls(OR=1.23),high school students(OR=1.85)and vocational high school students(OR=1.91),school bull-ying(OR=3.83),being scolded and beaten by parents(OR=3.32)and being exposed to cyber violence(OR=4.43)were positive factors related to depression symptoms;and non-residential students(OR=0.87)was a negative factor related to depression symp-toms(P＜0.05).Girls(OR=1.32),high school students(OR=1.77)and vocational high school students(OR=1.50),school bull-ying(OR=3.63),being scolded and beaten by parents(OR=3.41)and being exposed to cyber violence(OR=3.33)were positive factore related to anxiety symptoms(P＜0.05).Conclusions The depression and anxiety symptoms among middle school students in Beijing are closely related to the behaviors of school bullying and experiencing violence from parents or the Internet.Various measures should be taken to reduce the situation of school bullying,being scolded and beaten by parents and cyber violence among middle school students to promote their mental health.
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维普
