Alshahrani, Shadia Hamoud and Paulsamy, Premalatha and Panneerselvam, Selvarani and Alshahrani, Zainah and Fahad, H. Z. Alshahrani and Venkatesan, Krishnaraju (2021) Prevalence of Depression and Its’ Risk Factors among Higher Secondary School Students. Journal of Pharmaceutical Research International, 33 (44A). pp. 52-58. ISSN 2456-9119
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Abstract
As adolescence is a transitional stage in which a person's physical and psychological development and transformation are limited to the time between puberty and legal adulthood. It is commonly associated with the onset of a variety of mental health or adjustment problems. This study was to find out the incidence of depression and the factors that contribute to it among higher secondary school students. A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted among 100 adolescents who were selected by simple random sampling technique. The socio-demographic information, Perceived Social Support scale and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) were adopted to collect the data. Descriptive and Inferential statistics was used to analyse the collected data. In this study, 52% of the adolescents did not have depression, whereas 18% had moderate, 8% had moderate to severe depression and 2% of them had severe depression. Nearly 68% of students had a higher social support perception. The type of family and living status of parents had significant relationship with the level of depression among adolescents at p = 0.01. The study concludes that depression and mental distress among these adolescents may be alleviated by boosting their perceived degree of social support and self-esteem through a variety of methods such as family support, counselling at schools and workshops on self – management skills etc.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Open Research Librarians > Medical Science |
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Date Deposited: | 23 Mar 2023 09:36 |
Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2024 07:27 |
URI: | http://stm.e4journal.com/id/eprint/441 |