@article{ref1,
title="A comparative study on mental health among students and adults in the earthquake-hit areas",
journal="Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi",
year="2008",
author="Huang, Wen-wu and Shen, Lian-xiang and Zhu, Wei-ming and Qian, M. C. and Chen, Zhong-ming and Tang, Wenyuan and Fang, Xiang-ming and Feng, Min and Fei, Jin-feng and Luo, Jia-wen",
volume="42",
number="11",
pages="806-809",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To understand mental health status of the students and adults in the earthquake disaster areas, as to providing guidance on intervention for post-disaster psychological crisis. METHODS: The Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20), an appendix of The Ministry of Health of &quot;emergency psychological crisis intervention guiding principles&quot;, was used among 1222 victims in Wenchuan earthquake, Sichuan province. This questionnaire survey was conducted in 729 students and 493 adult victims in a randomized method. Of the 734 questionnaires distributed and received in students, 729 were validly responded with efficiency rate of 99.32%; while for adults, 496 questionnaires distributed, 496 received, 493 were valid with efficiency rate of 99.39%. RESULTS: (1) In students victims, 65% responded that they did feel &quot;uneasy, nervous or worried&quot;, followed by &quot;easy to be scared&quot;, &quot;feel unhappy&quot;, &quot;easy fatigue&quot; and &quot;hard to make a decision&quot;. For adult victims, 80.5% replied that they felt &quot;uneasy, nervous or worried&quot;, followed by &quot;feel unhappy&quot;, &quot;easy fatigue&quot;, &quot;difficult sleeping&quot;, &quot;easy to be scared&quot;. (2) The average of the SRQ score of student victims was 6.58 +/- 3.99, and 6.07 +/- 4.02 for males, 7.03 +/- 3.91 for females. The average of the SRQ score of student victims was 7.36 +/- 3.98, male 6.68 +/- 3.82, female 7.99 +/- 4.03. The significant differences (t(women) = 2.985, P < 0.01; t(total) = 3.332, P < 0.01) was observed in women and the total group of students and adults. (3) The SRQ positive screening rate of students group was 46.50%, the adult group was 52.33%, SRQ >/= 7 points and SRQ < 7 sub-group of students and adults of the total score there were significant differences (t(1) = 39.771, P < 0.01; t(2) = 31.961, P < 0.01). SRQ >/= 7 sub-group of students and adult women in between there was a significant difference (t = 23.641, P < 0.01), SRQ < 7 sub-group of students and adults in general and women there were significant differences (t(1) = 3.092, P < 0.01; t(2) = 2.911, P < 0.01). (4) SRQ scores with gender and age had had a positive relation (r(SRQ tatol-sex) = 0.118, P = 0.000; r(SRQ total-age) = 0.103, P = 0.000). CONCLUSION: The emotional suffering symptoms of students victims and adult victims should be &quot;nervous, unhappy, vulnerable on issues such as fatigue&quot;, the adult group had a higher symptom rate than the group of students, the mental health was more serious than that of students, as influenced by some factors including age and gender. Students, being a special population group should be paid more attention to focusing a designated behavior intervention, as a planned manner of intervention.<p /> <p>Language: zh</p>",
language="zh",
issn="0253-9624",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}