Behavioral Characteristics of Secondary School Students in Adigrat Town, Ethiopia, 2024

Adigrat Town, Ethiopia, is the geographic scope for this dataset on secondary school students. It contains survey data from 599 students, assessing behavioral characteristics and mental health factors. The dataset was created by Haftom Tesfay Gebremedhin and published in 2024.

Use Cases

• Identify factors associated with suicidal ideation based on survey responses.
• Analyze the relationship between bullying and psychological effects among adolescents.
• Study the prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder in a school-based population.
• Guide recovery efforts for students affected by contact sexual abuse or widespread trauma.

Strengths

• Dataset is small (5.5 KB), facilitating quick download and initial inspection.
• Focus on a specific population (599 secondary school students in Adigrat Town) provides a clear study scope.
• License is CC-BY-4.0, allowing for open sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single-town, cross-sectional study.

Provenance

Source

Haftom Tesfay Gebremedhin via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely a cross-sectional survey study, as indicated by platform tags.

Time Range

2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 17:33:13; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Adigrat Town, Ethiopia.