Investigation on status of psychological health of high school students with chronic hepatitis B

  Objective   To investigate the psy chological health status of high school students with chronic hepatitis B (CHB).

  Methods   322 high school students with CHB were scored psychologically with Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90), CES-D and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ), which were matched at random with the healthy students in the same class by the ratio of 1B2.

  Results   The item score of depression, anxiey or interpersonal relations in SCL-90 of students with CHB was higher than that of the healthy students respectively; The students with CHB were of depressibility and most of them were at the likely stage; The students with CHB gothieher Nscores in EPQ than the healthy students, the difference of which was significant.

  Conclusion   The psychological status of high school students with CHB was unhealthy to a certain degree, which presented characteristically depression, anxiety, hypersusceptibility of interpersonal relations and instability of emotions.