Tara Beattie|Ravi Prakash|April Mazzuca|Leslie Kelly|Prakash Javalkar|T. Raghavendra|Satyanarayana Ramanaik|Martine Collumbien|Stephen Moses|Lori Heise|Shajy Isac|Charlotte Watts
Prevalence and correlates of psychological distress among 13–14 year old adolescent girls in North Karnataka, South India: a cross-sectional study
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine|Karnataka Health Promotion Trust|University of British Columbia|London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine|Karnataka Health Promotion Trust|Karnataka Health Promotion Trust|Karnataka Health Promotion Trust|London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine|University of Manitoba|Johns Hopkins University|University of Manitoba|London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
mental health disorders among adolescents emerged major public health issue many low middleincome countries including india paucity research determinants psychological distress particularly among poorest girls poorest communities purpose study assess prevalence correlates different indicators psychological distress among 1314 year old low caste girls rural south indiacrosssectional survey 1191 low caste girls two districts north karnataka conducted part cluster randomisedcontrol trial bivariate multivariate logistic regression analysis assessed correlates different indicators psychological distressmore one third girls 351 reported hope future 69 reported feeling depressed hopeless past 2 weeks 21 reported thinking would better dead hurting way past 2 weeks 16 reported sexual abuse 80 rrecent eve teasing 63 parental emotional support suicidal ideation independently associated sexual abuse aor 119 30470 lack parental emotional support aor 02 0105 feeling depressed hopeless independently associated recent eveteasing aor 29 1654 harassing abusive school environment aor 39 1882 frequently absent aor 28 1555 dropped school aor 21 1043 living vijayapura district aor 25 1641 hope future independently associated range factors including recent eveteasing aor 15 1024 engaged aor 29 0997 participating groups aor 05 0406 lack emotional support aor 06 0407rather time optimism third low caste girls rural north karnataka limited hope future contemplating suicide well important development benefits interventions address upstream structural gendernorms based determinants poor mental health provide adolescent services girls require treatment support important benefits girls psychological wellbeingprospectively registered clinicaltrialsgovnct01996241 november 27 2013