Shanghai preschool children&apos;s mental health problems and related risk factors.

SUN Li-jing; JIANG Yan-rui; YANG You; CHENG Wen-hong; HE Yan-ling; JIANG Fan; SHEN Xiao-ming.

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Chinese Journal of Child Health Care ›› 2014, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (3) : 248-251.

Shanghai preschool children's mental health problems and related risk factors.

SUN Li-jing^{1, 2}, JIANG Yan-rui², YANG You², CHENG Wen-hong³, HE Yan-ling³, JIANG Fan², SHEN Xiao-ming^{1, 2}.

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Objective To examine the general situation of the common mental health problems in preschool children of Shanghai and to study the risk factors related to preschool children's mental health problems. Methods The Chinese version of the parent-reported Strength and Difficulty Questionnaire (SDQ) was administered to the parents of a representative sample of 2 073 children aged 4~6 years old.The response rate was 81.1%.Three scoring Methods were performed and examined their association with socio-demographic data. Results A total of 21.1% of preschoolers were classified as "borderline or abnormal" in the total difficulties score.Analyses of variance showed significant effects for SES, children's relationship with parents, and parent's relationship marital.The mean peer problem scores of this sample were clearly differed from the data of western countries.The proportion of "borderline or abnormal" in peer relationship problems was 40.5%, which was much higher than the Results of other countries. Conclusions The present study showed that prevalence rates of mental problems in Shanghai preschool children are mostly in line with other published findings of the developed countries except the rate of "borderline or abnormal" in the peer problem is much higher..And the parent-child relationship is one of the most important factors related to children's mental health problems.

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Strength and Difficuty Questionnaire / preschool children / mental health / parent-child relationship

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SUN Li-jing, JIANG Yan-rui, YANG You, CHENG Wen-hong, HE Yan-ling, JIANG Fan, SHEN Xiao-ming.. Shanghai preschool children's mental health problems and related risk factors.[J]. Chinese Journal of Child Health Care. 2014, 22(3): 248-251

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