Marinoni A, Degrate A, Villani S, Gerzeli S
Faculty of Medicine, Health Science Department, University of Pavia, Italy.
Eur J Epidemiol. 1997 Oct;13(7):779-86. doi: 10.1023/a:1007345418104.
Adolescence is a time of social as well as biological transition; nevertheless, there are very few epidemiological studies in this field in Italy. Therefore, we felt it would be useful to conduct a cross-sectional study on a sample of 1346 adolescents aged 14-19 years attending high schools in the Health Authority Area of Pavia (northern Italy) through a multi-dimensional approach, taking into consideration physical and psychological health, life habits, family environment and social life of teen-agers. We used a structured self-administered questionnaire consisting of 264 question items to achieve the study aim, which was to find the variables (among personal data, scholastic, family, relational characteristics and habits) correlated with psychological distress. The results showed that in this sample psychological distress (evaluated by GHQ-30) was significatively (p < 0.005) associated with female sex, problems with school friends and teachers, having at least one immigrant parent (from a region different from that of residence), little love for parents and poor parental psycho-physical health status, staying at home on the weekend, smoking and using psychoactive medicines.
青春期是一个社会和生理都发生转变的时期；然而，在意大利，该领域的流行病学研究非常少。因此，我们认为通过多维度方法，对意大利北部帕维亚卫生当局辖区内1346名14 - 19岁的高中生样本进行横断面研究是有益的，研究考虑了青少年的身心健康、生活习惯、家庭环境和社交生活。我们使用了一份由264个问题项组成的结构化自填问卷来实现研究目的，即找出（在个人数据、学业、家庭、人际关系特征和习惯中）与心理困扰相关的变量。结果显示，在这个样本中，心理困扰（通过GHQ - 30评估）与女性性别、与学校朋友和老师的问题、至少有一位移民父母（来自与居住地不同的地区）、对父母的爱少以及父母身心健康状况差、周末待在家、吸烟和使用精神活性药物显著相关（p < 0.005）。
