Abstract

BORGES, Juliane  and  ANDAKI, Alynne. Self-perception of health in adolescents: prevalence and associated factors during COVID-19 pandemic. Psic., Saúde & Doenças [online]. 2023, vol.24, n.3, pp.929-940.  Epub Dec 31, 2023. ISSN 1645-0086.  https://doi.org/10.15309/23psd240312.

The objective was to verify the prevalence of self-perceived health in adolescents and sociodemographic, behavioral factors and associated health aspects during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using cross-sectional design, a sample of adolescents answered the Adolescent Behavior Questionnaire of Santa Catarina and the Beck Depression Inventory-Second Edition online. To compare proportions, the Chi-square test (χ2) was used and to find the factors associated with self-perception of health, the Poisson Regression. Analyzes were performed in SPSS software. A total of 157 adolescents participated, most of them female (66.7%), with mean age of 15.91 years (SD=0.8). Depressive symptoms were found in 55.8% of the adolescents, the prevalence in girls was significantly higher than in the boys (65.7% vs 36.5%, p<0.05). There was a prevalence of 66.0% of positive self-perception of health in adolescents. Adolescents who slept well sometimes (PR= 2.8, 95%CI:1.5 - 5.3), almost never or never (PR=3.6, 95%CI:1.9 - 7.0, p=0.001) had a higher prevalence ratio of negative self-perception of health when compared to adolescents who always or almost always slept well. Adolescents who had depressive symptoms had a higher prevalence ratio (PR= 1.9, 95%CI:1.0 - 3.5, p=0.024) of negative self-perception when compared to adolescents without depressive symptoms It was concluded that self-perception of health was associated with sleep and depressive symptoms in adolescents.

Keywords : Teenager; Health evaluation; Depression; Physical activity; Coronavirus Infections.

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