Assessment of Social Functioning among Adolescent School-going Children in Hooghly District, West Bengal, India: A Cross-sectional Study
| Autor: | Sulagna Das, Sukanya Gupta, Sumitaksha Banerjee, Mridul Das, Riddhiman Neogi, Soumopriyo Mukherjee |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, Vol 17, Iss 5, Pp LC13-LC17 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 2249-782X 0973-709X |
| DOI: | 10.7860/JCDR/2023/60936.17918 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Adolescents form a socially significant segment of the population. The analysis of social functioning, a sensitive indicator of underlying mental ailments, amongst them is a good measure to find out their mental health status. Aim: To assess the social functioning skills and its associated factors among adolescent school-going children in Hooghly District, West Bengal, India. Materials and Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional questionnaire-based was conducted among 1056 (mean {SD) age=15.53±1.3 years} school-going adolescent children in four randomly selected English medium private co-educational schools, from Class IX to XII, in Hooghly District, West Bengal, India, for a period of two months from June 2022-July 2022. The Child and Adolescent Social and Adaptive Functioning Scale (CASAFS), a validated tool consisting of 24 items designed to measure psychosocial functioning, was used. A Likert scale scoring was done for each item. Adolescents scoring below the 75th percentile of the total score were classified as “poor social adaptive functioning skill” and those above 75th percentile as “good social adaptive functioning skill”. The data was analysed using IBM Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), version 23.0 software. Descriptive statistics like mean, median, percentile, standard deviation were generated. Analytical statistics like chi-square test was applied to find out the relationship between categorical variables i.e., social functional skill and socio-demographic profile and a p-value of |
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