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. 2023 Aug 24;18(8):e0284771. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0284771

Table 1. Details related to study instrument.

Section Content Operational Definition & Validation
Section 1: Interview Information Auto assigned unique study number, Name, Current positions, Name of the college/institution, Contact number, Address, Taluk, District, Locale, Date, consented information. -
Section 2: Editing & Data Entry Information & details of data entry -
Section 3: Sociodemographic characteristics Sociodemographic characteristics of the respondent Household Information–Number of family members, relationship with respondent, age, occupation, education & marital status -
Section 4: Family Environment Communication with family members, Arguments, Criticism, Time spent with family members, decision making and Family support issues -
Section 5: Socio economic characteristics Own a house, Own agricultural land, Household income, Household expenditure -
Section 6: Personal and Family Health Morbidity and hospitalisation information of self and family members -
Section 7: Diet and eating habits Type of diet, consumption of number of meals cooked at home -
Screening Section—8,9,10,11: Substance Use Tobacco smoking C.A.G.E. Questionnaire [10]
Tobacco chewing Modified Fagerstorm Tolerance scale [11]
Alcohol consumption M.I.N.I– 5.0.0 Interview [12]
Injecting/sniffing/oral drugs C.A.G.E. Questionnaire [10]
Section 12: Violence related information Different forms of violence experienced, its frequency, person who inflicted violence, hospitalization due to injuries, violence inflicted by Respondent -
Section 13: Depression Symptoms of depression in last 15 days, sleep disturbance, appetite, feeling apathy, feeling worthless, lack of interest in daily activities M.I.N.I– 5.0.0 Interview [12]
Section 14: Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms of anxiety–Consistently being worried, feeling restless, irritable and inability to concentrate on work. M.I.N.I-5.0.0 Interview [13]
Section 15: Self-harm Information on thoughts of committing self-harm or suicide, ever attempted to commit suicide. M.I.N.I-5.0.0 Interview [12]
Section 16: Injuries and related Different forms of injuries like road traffic accidents, falls, burns, animal bite, drowning, poisoning and hospitalization for the same.
Section 17: Physical Activity Time spent on different physical activities in a week
Section 18: Sexual behaviour Sexual practices including number of partners, use of condoms during first and last time the person had sex
Section 19: Work environment and job satisfaction Type of work, Change in jobs, Monthly income, characteristics of job satisfaction
Section 20: Teaching Factors Mode of teaching, preferred mode of teaching, perception about their teaching abilities, knowledge and technology
Section 21: Peer Group & Social capital Number of peers, activities they do with their peers and information on peer characteristics
Section 22: Behavioural Factors Self-talk, Social, family, work, financial, psychological, health related crisis, psychological, Big 5 Inventory with components of Extraversion, Openness, Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism. 10-item short version of Big Five Inventory developed by Dr Rammstedt [13]
Section 23: Life Skills 115 questions related to life skills Life skills scale developed for adolescent population by Dr Vranda M N [14]. Scale validated for adult population by Dr Guatham M S [15]
Section 24: Quality of life 25 questions on general health and 4 domains such as Physical quality of life, Psychological quality of life, environmental quality of life WHOQOL–BREF Inventory developed by World health organisation [16]
Section 25: Exposure to media and related Information time spent and watching programs television, using internet, video games & video Tapes Cell phone overuse and addiction developed by Centre for Wellbeing, NIMHANS [17]