M. Marthoenis, Meryam Schouler-Ocak
This study aims to estimate the prevalence and associated factors of psychological distress (PD) among Indonesian adolescents. The nationally representative data from the Global School-based Students Health Survey conducted in Indonesia in 2015 were used in this study. The sample consists of 8698 school-aged adolescents with a median age of 14. The prevalence of PD was 7.3%, which was higher among female (8.1%) than male (6.2%) students. Factors that independently increase the likelihood of PD include older age, female gender, experience bullying 3 or more days in a month, serious injuries, having suicide ideations or a suicide plan, often or always feeling hungry, not eating fruit in the past 30 days, and engaging in sedentary behavior (p < 0.005). In addition, parental emotional support and having 2 or more close friends were independently protective against PD (p < 0.005). The finding of 7.3% of Indonesian adolescents with PD is relatively lower than the rates reported in other countries, despite using similar tools and databases. Factors that increase the likelihood of adolescent PD should be reduced or avoided, while parental emotional support and having more close friends should be encouraged to possibly decrease distresses. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health Nursing, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, 23111, Indonesia; University Psychiatric Clinic of Charité at St. Hedwig’s Hospital, Berlin, Germany
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