P-280 - Hopelessness and self-esteem of adolescents refered to mental health clinic in Prizren

Abstract

Introduction Hopelessness and self-esteem are evaluated to be linked with psychopathology. Objectives To look for sensitivity of scales who measure these components as premise for use in clinical work. Aims Measure the level of hopelessness and self-esteem of adolescents referred to clinic and the psychological difficulties;possible correlation with diagnosis, psychological difficulties and suicidality. Methods Referred adolescents to the clinic have been offered to fill out Hopelessness scale for children, Rosenberg self-esteem scale and SDQ questionnaire. All data has been analyzed by SPSS 14.0. Results In the sample of 57 adolescents we found 14 (24,6%) case with high level of hopelessness; 42 (73,7%) cases with low self-esteem and 17 (29,8%) cases with suicidal thinking/behavior. We didn't found any significant association with diagnose.With psychological difficulties based on SDQ (n = 53) resulted 16 (28,3%) cases.We found significant negative association ( x 2 = 8.857,df = 1, N = 57, Fisher's exact test p x 2 = 6.578, df = 2, N = 57, p Conclusions Low self-esteem is much presented, but not associated with hopelessness and suicidality. High level of hopelessness and suicidality also are present nearly in third of sample and linked between. High level of hopelessness accompanies other psychological difficulties found (emotional, conduct, hyperactivity) but not with diagnose.