Assessing Mental Well-being among Adolescents in Vellore District

Abstract Background & Objectives: In today’s world, many adolescents face many problems due to social media distractions, one of the most important problem is mental health and its related problems. India has adolescents, a quarter of the total population and only a few studies were done on mental well-being among adolescents studying in government and private schools. The objectives of the study were to assess mental well-being among adolescents and to find out the association between mental well-being with selected sociodemographic variables. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional self-administered questionnaire based study. A convenient sampling method was used. Totally 184 male and female adolescents studying 9th to 12th standards from rural areas of government and private school students had voluntarily participated. To assess the mental well-being among adolescents Warwick Mental Well-being scale was used. All the collected data were cleaned, coded, and entered in MS Excel version 2007. Frequencies, Chi-square test, and Fisher’s exact test were analyzed by using SPSS software version 22.0. Results and Conclusion: The results were found that 59 % of adolescents were studying in a government school and 41% were studying in a private school. There was an association between mental well-being and the mother’s education, siblings, staying, domicile and extracurricular activities (p<0.05). This research study showed that the majority of the adolescents were having average level of mental well-being in the Vellore district of Tamil Nadu.