Determination of Levels of Anxiety and its Association with Demographic Characteristics of Adolescent Girls in Secondary Schools of Lahore: Levels of anxiety in Adolescent Girls

Muhammad  Azhar; Muhammad  Afzal; Zafar  Iqbal; Sumaira  Riaz

doi:10.54393/pbmj.v6i06.890

Authors

Muhammad Azhar Department of Nursing and Paramedics, Ibadat International University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Muhammad Afzal Lahore School of Nursing, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan
Zafar Iqbal Faculty of Nursing, Sohail University, Karachi, Pakistan
Sumaira Riaz Department of Nursing and Paramedics, Ibadat International University, Islamabad, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54393/pbmj.v6i06.890

Keywords:

Anxiety, Adolescents, Girls, Secondary School

Abstract

Adolescence is a transition period between the time of childhood and adulthood as it is usually accompanied by sexual maturation and physical growth as well as psychological and cognitive changes necessary for coping with the tasks of later adult life. Objective: To identify levels of anxiety and its association with demographic characteristics of adolescent girls in secondary schools of Lahore Methods: Cross-sectional, analytical design was used in this study. The normality assumptions were tested by Kolmogorov-Smirnov^a and Shapiro-Wilk test. Results: Out of 140 participants, 116 participants were having anxiety. Among these participants, 73 (62.9%) were having mild anxiety, 38 (32.7%) were having moderate anxiety, and only 5 (4.31%) were having severe anxiety. Statistical analysis show that the data were not normally distributed as evident from the p-value 0.01 and 0.03 in Kolmogorov-Smirnov^a and Shapiro-Wilk tests, respectively. Analysis showed that there is a significant difference in anxiety levels in adolescent school girls as evident by p-value is less than 0.05. Conclusion: The prevalence of anxiety was 82.85% among adolescents’ girls. Majority of the adolescent students were facing mild and mild anxiety and this anxiety remain throughout the adolescent age but reduce with passage of age.

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