A study on the prevalence of depression among young adults in south india
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Depression among adolescents has emerged as a major mental health problem in the last two decades. Many prevalence studies document a substantial number of adolescents in the general population to suffer from depression with rates ranging from 8% to 20% and associated with suicide, other psychiatric co-morbidity, academic failure, poor peer relationships, substance abuse and severe depression during adulthood . Of course, the most devastating outcome of concern for adolescent depression is suicide, the third leading cause of death among adolescents. In India, adolescent depression is an under researched area. Psychiatric morbidity among school samples of adolescents was found in about 29% of girls and 23% of boys with depression being the most common disorder.While rates of depression increase from childhood to adolescence for all, a consistent finding is that adolescent girls are between 1.5 to 3 times more likely to develop depression than adolescent boys.There was a significant association between age and depression in the sample of adolescents. The present study reported that adolescents studying in 12th grade and 17 years had moderate depression which was statistically significant at p < 0.001 level, because this is the time to think about their career paths and to reach their life goals. depression may also rely upon factors such as Education ,Type of Family, father's and mothers occupation,parenting style etc...
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