To Study Depression Among Secondary School Students In Relation To Gender.
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Depression, Male/ Female Children, ParentsAbstract
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.
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