Common mental disorders and associated factors among high school students in Debre Markos town, North-west Ethiopia, 2021

Abstract

Common mental disorders are Anxiety, Depression, Somatic symptoms and related disorders. They pose significant public health problem because of their serious effects on personal wellbeing, social and occupational functions. They also can affect health and quality of life of people at early age as adolescence has been a time of vulnerability and the point at which many of the disease burdens from mental disorders emerges. More than 60% of adolescents fulfill criteria for at least one common mental disorder by the American psychiatry association.