European Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Background: The number of adolescents in India are 250 million and are a significant proportion to the Indian population. Increase in the addictions, both in terms of behavioral and non-behavioral addictions leading to lot of changes in the attitudes of the adolescents resulting in aggressive and some times violent behaviour which is detrimental to the future of the individual and also to the societies as a whole. Methodology: It is an institution-based study in southern part of India, conducted among 500 adolescents in the schools and colleges of Rajahmundry city, East Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh. The Aggression scale and socio demographic details and other factors are obtained from the adolescents Results: 26 (5.2%) members showed aggression and factors like gender, type of school or college, residential status and Socio-economic status were significantly associated with Aggressive behaviour