Open AccessPrevalence of depression among students of a dental tertiary care center in Kerala
Author(s) -
Dhanya Raghunathan,
Devraj Ramakrishnan,
K V Iris Valsan,
Suchitra Ambika
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_23_19
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , medicine , mental health , family medicine , patient health questionnaire , capital city , cross sectional study , government (linguistics) , confidence interval , psychiatry , nursing , depressive symptoms , anxiety , linguistics , philosophy , economic geography , pathology , economics , macroeconomics
According to the World Health Organization, more than 300 million people were estimated to suffer from depression in 2017. Many studies have observed that medical personnel have a higher level of depression, but studies among dentists are scarce. Early diagnosis will help in controlling the morbidity and mortality due to depression. Hence, this study was undertaken to estimate the prevalence of depression among students of Government Dental College (GDC), Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of the state of Kerala, India.