What is it about?
Working adolescent girls in developing nations face multiple challenges at workplace and home due to their vulnerability. Loneliness, lack of social life and complex family issues can cause mental health problems in them. This study explores their life from the mental health point of view
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Why is it important?
This study establishes solid links between complex family issues, poor working conditions and mental health status of adolescent girls. While child labour is almost eradicated in the study country, decent working conditions for adolescent employmees with provision of employees assistance programs should be considered by policy makers.
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As a preventive medicine physician, passionate about improving the lives of vulnerable, underprivileged adolescent girls, I value this study as an important contribution to the scientific world, giving voice to girls from impoverished back grounds working in poor working conditions.
Nancy Angeline Gnanaselvam
St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Depression and Behavioral Problems Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Employees of the Textile Industry in India, Workplace Health & Safety, August 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2165079917716187.
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