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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Public Health

Sec. Public Mental Health

This article is part of the Research TopicYouth Mental HealthView all 19 articles

Early Warning Model for Depression and Anxiety among Adolescent Students: An Empirical Study Based on Guilin

Provisionally accepted
Qingpo  MaQingpo Ma1Xuemei  XuXuemei Xu1Lin  LuLin Lu1Mochen  ZhangMochen Zhang2*Xuhong  ChenXuhong Chen3*Ruizhe  WangRuizhe Wang3*Qiuhong  LiaoQiuhong Liao3Hongwei  WangHongwei Wang3Yijun  WangYijun Wang4Yangxizi  TanYangxizi Tan1Niannian  LiNiannian Li1
  • 1Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China
  • 2Guilin People's Hospital, Guilin, China
  • 3the Third People's Hospital of Longgang District Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
  • 4Zhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhongshan, China

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Objective To analyze the occurrence of depression and anxiety in Guilin and verify the early warning model of depression and anxiety in Guilin. Methods Using multi-layer sampling method, 10 middle schools were selected from September 2022 to September 2023, with a total of 1245 middle and high school students in an anonymous self-filled questionnaire survey. A total of 1150 valid young students were obtained as the survey object, which was randomly divided into training set (920 cases) and verification set (230 cases). Using hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) to evaluate the occurrence of Guilin adolescent students depression anxiety, in the form of a questionnaire to understand and analyze the factors affecting Guilin adolescent students depression anxiety, establish the influence of Guilin adolescent students depression anxiety prediction model of occurrence and model validation and efficiency evaluation. Results In the training set of 920 adolescent students, 164 patients developed depressive anxiety, or 17.83%, and 756 patients did not develop depressive anxiety. In the validation set, among 230 adolescent students, 44 patients developed depressive anxiety, with an incidence of 19.13%, and 186 patients did not develop depressive anxiety. Logistic Regression analysis showed that OR (95%CI) =3.44 (1.98,5.97), Chinese version of the Family Adaptation and Cohesion Scale (FACESCV) [OR (95% CI) = 1.67 (1.07, 2.61)], and the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CDRISC) score for adolescent students [OR (95% CI) = 1.83 (1.15, 2.92)]were the factors that affected the occurrence of depression and anxiety in adolescents in Guilin (P <0.05). The ROC curve results of the training set showed that the nomogram model predicted the sensitivity of depression and anxiety with 80.25%, specificity of 80.09% and AUC of 0.849. Conclusion High risk of depression and anxiety, academic stress, FACESCV and CDRISC score are the influencing factors affecting the occurrence of depression and anxiety in adolescent students in Guilin.

Keywords: Teenage students, depression and anxiety, Early warning model, Academic pressure, household income

Received: 24 Aug 2025; Accepted: 13 Nov 2025.

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* Correspondence:
Mochen Zhang, 1349798732@qq.com
Xuhong Chen, 1582985387@qq.com
Ruizhe Wang, 240268276@qq.com

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