The depression prevalence and its related factors in teenagers in Kashan-Iran 2006

Abstract

Background and aims:

Teenagers specially girls have many problem with adaptation of development and their need during adolescence.one of the most serious problem that they faced to is depression.prevalence of depression in teenagers is 40-70% and it is in girl twice as many as boys. This study has been carried out to evaluate prevalence of depression and it's related factors in high school girls in Kashan -IRAN 2006.

Methods:

This descriptive crossectional study was performed to evaluate 762 high school girls whom were selected randomly from the school of Kashan IRAN 2006.The Beck questionnaire was used for depression assessment scores less than 5,5-7,8-15 and more than 16 were considered normal, mild, moderate and severe depression respectively. In addition some questions about demographic criteria was asked. X2 and T test were used to analyze the data.

Results:

The frequency of mild, moderate and severe depression were 148(%19/4), 183(%24) and77 (%10) respectively (on the whole 53/4%). There was no relationship between depression and mother education, mother and father job, number of sisters and brothers and father's age while there was significant relationship between depression and father education(p<0/007).in depression group there was 28/9% illiterate and primary school fathers and 16/2% university education fathers while in normal group was 21/2% and 22/9% respectively.

Conclusions:

Because of high prevalence of depression in teenagers, it's recommended to study more on effective factors on depression especially in teenagers.

Keywords:

Depression, Teenagers