Open AccessStudy of prevalence of depression in adolescent students of a public school
Author(s) -
Vivek Bansal,
Sunil Goyal,
Kalpana Srivastava
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.57859
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , psychology , distress , clinical psychology , observational study , marital status , psychiatry , medicine , population , environmental health , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
Three to nine per cent of teenagers meet the criteria for depression at any one time, and at the end of adolescence, as many as 20% of teenagers report a lifetime prevalence of depression. Usual care by primary care physicians fails to recognize 30-50% of depressed patients.