Correlation study of anxious, depression mental and the characters of personality among school-aged children with short stature

Objective To study the correlation between emotion of anxious and depression and the characteristic of personality among school-aged children with short stature.Methods 102 of school-aged children with short stature was experimental group and 78 age-matched healthy children was control group were investigated with the screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders (SCARED),depression self rating scale for children (DSRSC) and Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ),respectively.Results There was significandy difference in the positive rates of anxious between experimental group(44.12％ ) and control group (16.67％) (x2 =15.25,P＜0.01),but the significantly difference in the percentage of depression was no detected (P＞0.05).Experimental group anxiety total score and subscales score of somatization/panic,generalized anxiety,social phobia,school phobia were significantly higher than that of control group (t =6.281,3.325,7.427,8.857,2.542,respectively;P ＜ 0.05 ).The scores of the EPQ-N and EPQ-P of experimental group that (16.35±4.23),(8.31±3.46) were significantly higher than that of control group (11.86 ±3.82),(5.21±2.78),while the scores of the EPQ-L and EPQ-E that (8.24±5.10),(11.36±3.14) were significantly lower than that of control group (11.24±3.43),(13.37±4.25) (P＜0.05).The score of SCARED was positively correlated with EPQ-N and EPQ-P and negatively correlated with EPQ-E and EPQ-L (r =0.37,0.33,-0.31,-0.19,respectively;P＜0.01),while the score of DSRSC was positively correlated with EPQ-N and EPQ-P and negatively correlated with EPQ-E (r =0.17,0.13.-0.21,respectively;P＜0.05).Conclusions School-aged children with short stature have more anxiety and depression than the normal children,which relate with their personality.So,it is very important to implement the evaluation and supportive interventions for them. Key words: Anxiety;  Depression;  Personality;  Short children;  School-age