Open AccessCLINICO-DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Author(s) -
Anamaria Ciubară,
Roxana Chiriță,
Ştefan Lucian Burlea,
Ancuţa Ignat,
Smaranda Diaconescu,
Ilinca Untu,
Vasile Valeriu Lupu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
romanian journal of pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2069-6175
pISSN - 1454-0398
DOI - 10.37897/rjp.2015.4.8
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , anxiety , psychiatry , psychology , clinical psychology , population , medicine , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics
In both adults and pediatric population, depression is a major disability cause; suicide is the third death cause among children and adolescents. Whereas depression and depression with associated anxiety are among the most common psychiatric pathologies in children and adolescents (with strong impact on their global functionality and with a significant influence on their development process), they are far from studied thoroughly. This study aims to highlight certain demographic and clinical patterns associated to depression of anxiety in children and adolescents, which may represent premises for broader future research and for the consolidation of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention methods.