Online ISSN: 2515-8260

STRESS, ANXIETY & DEPRESSION AMONG TEENAGE STUDENTS WITH SPECIFIC LEARNING DISABILITY: CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY

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Dr. Surabhi Baxla, Dr. Surbhi Rathi , Dr. Vishal Sawant

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Introduction: Specific Learning Disability (SLD) is a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, whether spoken or written, and which manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations. These Children have deficits despite average or above average level of intellectual functioning. Presence of SLD can be extremely frustrating for a school child. The stress of having a Learning Disorder is often exhibited overtly through school maladjustment, clinical maladjustment, emotional symptoms and Depression resulting in subsequent behavioral problems. Methodology: Analytical cross-sectional study was conducted involving Children diagnosed and certified to have learning disability, Children diagnosed on the basis of intelligence test i.e WISC III / IV and psychoeducational testing i.e. Wood Cock Johnson score. The study was carried out in the Life Centre for learning disability on OPD basis where students brought by their parents for consultation and learning disability assessment. Result: Stress amongst participants was the more consistent finding with 58 (29) of participants in the study exhibiting signs and symptoms of stress as per DAS scale followed by depression in 26(13) participants and anxiety in 12 (6.5) participants. Conclusion: Depression, anxiety & stress was significantly more in 15-18 years age group while no significant association was observed with gender.

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