Characteristics of adolescents aged 11-17 years in Lohagara, Narail, 2024

A cross-sectional study was performed in Lohagara, a rural subdistrict in Narail in southern Bangladesh, where 350 subjects were recruited. The sampling technique was stratified sampling. Students from different classes in school were grouped into sections. There were five classes, and each class consisted of three different sections. Every section comprised fifty students in total. Through simple random sampling, one section from each class was selected primarily, and another two sections were chosen from the rest following the same. The Bengali-translated versions of the Suicidal Behavior-Revised Questionnaire (SBQ-R) and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale - 21 Items (DASS-21), as well as another structured questionnaire, were used to collect data from participants.Version 4 includes 159 new data points and corrections to some entries from previous Versions.