Prevalence of mental health problems among senior high school students in mainland of China from 2010 to 2020: A meta-analysis

Abstract: " The prevalence of mental health problems of senior high school students in China needs urgent attention. It has attracted many researchers’ attention, but their results were inconsistent. In order to clarify the detection rates and influencing factors of mental health problems of senior high school students in China in recent ten years, we performed a meta-analysis using 252 retrieved studies. The results showed that the prevalence from high to low were depression (28%), anxiety (26%), sleep problems (23%), self-injury (23%), suicidal ideation (17%), somatization (10%), suicide plan (7%), and suicide attempt (3%). The prevalence of mental health problems of senior high school students in China was affected by the year of publication, measurement tools, detection standards, detection time, grade, and region. In the future, efforts should be made to prepare standardized evaluation tools, build a long-term mechanism of mental health education, and focus on the mental health problems of senior class and underdeveloped area senior high school students.