Alcohol intoxication and mental health among adolescents – a population review of 8983 young people, 13–19 years in North-Trøndelag, Norway: the Young-HUNT Study

Table 2 Mental health problems by gender and age in adolescents, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway 1995–97

	Boys				Girls
	Age 13–15		Age 16–19		Age 13–15		Age 16–19
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
High attention problems score	499	22.7	580	27.1	551	24.5	614	29.6
High conduct problems score	964	43.7	744	34.9	673	29.9	461	22.2
High combined anxiety/depressive symptoms score*	295	13.3	400	18.9	566	25.2	769	37.6

* Anxiety symptoms and depressive symptoms derived from SCL-5, presented as a common variable based on all the 5 questions in SCL-5.

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