Prevalence and Awareness of Depression among Youth in Urban Area
Journal Title: International Journal of Research and Review - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 5
Abstract
Background: Depression among Youth is increasing at an alarming rate. Every section of society has its unique perceptions about Depression, particularly the youth. Depression is a disease that affect majority of public in the world wide as a survey 450 million people suffer from mental disorder out of that 121 million people suffer with depression in the world. Suicide is an important cause of premature death, is strongly associated with depression. Methods: An Exploratory, cross sectional survey study was conducted on 100 youths of 15 to 25 yrs. age group were included in the study using convenient sampling technique. The Depression Scale and Awareness knowledge questionnaire was used to collect the data. Results: In this study the majority 84 % of the youths are age group of 15-18 years, 50% youths are male and female, majority 74% of them completed primary education, majority 72% of youths are students & 19% youths are employed. The prevalence of depression was 19% among youth. The majority of the youth 73% were Average level of awareness regarding Depression. Conclusion: Depression among Youth is increasing at an alarming rate and there desperate need for prevention and awareness programme regarding depression to reduce the suicide by 2030.
Authors and Affiliations
Manual D’souza
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP480182
- DOI -
- Views 127
- Downloads 0
A Study on Waste Treating Technologies Used For Disinfecting the Bio-Medical Waste in Greater Mumbai
Management of health care waste has become an integral part of an infection control and hygiene program in health care settings as they are the major contributors of community acquired diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B a...
Non-surgical Management of Gingival Enlargement with Vitamin C – A Case Report
Gingival Enlargement (GE) is one of the most common conditions seen in the oral cavity. Etiology can be multifactorial like presence of local and various systemic factors. Chronic inflammatory GE is a plaque induced cond...
Symbols, Meaning, and Functions of Simalungun Hiou: Semiotic Studies
Semiotics is the study of sign; every sign or symbol has meaning or message to be conveyed by a communicator to his communicant. The semiotics in this research is used as a method of text analysis when the research tries...
Business Operations of Co-Operative Marketing Societies- A Theoretical Perspective
Co-operative marketing society is a practical economic system of transacting business based on all that is best in its members. It was generally considered that the society dealing with the economic needs of its members...
Role of Rasaushadhies in Balancing Doshas w.s.r. to Muscular Disorders
There are different types of muscular disorders in human body. Here is an attempt to find out the improvement in these muscular deficiencies, which causes deformities, with special reference to Rasa Shastra (Pharmaceutic...