Exploitable results Epidemiological research on problem behaviour of children in Russia This epidemiological study on problem behaviour in children in Russia has two objectives: to provide base line data on the prevalence of specific behavioural and emotional problems in Russian teenagers aged 12-16; to compare prevalence rates in the Russian sample with prevalence rates in other samples of same-aged teenagers. A three-stage stratified sampling design was used, resulting in a sample that was representative of gender, family's socioeconomic status, region, and type of community in the Russian Federation. Two questionnaires were used in the study. Interviewers visited the parents at home and administered both questionnaires by interview. In total 27OO respondents participated in the study and 71.0% of all parents visited. According to their parents' reports Russian teenagers were showing a wide variety of behavioural and emotional problems. Some problems had very high prevalence rates and seemed to be characteristic for the Russian youth i.e. withdrawal behaviour, psychosomatic problems and delinquency. Many problems were significantly related to the adolescent's gender: internalizing problems (anxiety, depressive feelings, psychosomatic complaints) were reported as more typical for girls externalizing problems (aggression delinquency) as more typical for boys. Only a few small significant age differences in the prevalence of behavioural and emotional problems were found. Demographic factors co-occurring with high levels of problem behaviour in teenagers were living in big cities as Moscow and St. Petersburg, family's income last month and parents' perception of their financial position. Higher levels of problem behaviour were also noted in adolescents who had moved or changed school frequently, in adolescents not having an own room in the house or apartment and in adolescents stemming from families in which at least one member manifested a chronic somatic or psychological disease. Searching for OpenAIRE data... There was an error trying to search data from OpenAIRE No results available
