Open AccessPublic Awareness of Depression – An Informal Clinical Study
Author(s) -
Rajwinder Dhaliwal,
AUTHOR_ID
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
international journal of medical science and clinical research studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2767-8342
pISSN - 2767-8326
DOI - 10.47191/ijmscrs/v2-i2-01
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , stigma (botany) , health professionals , health care , population , public health , medicine , psychiatry , psychology , clinical psychology , nursing , environmental health , economics , macroeconomics , economic growth
The real challenge regards depression is the barriers associated with its diagnosis and treatment. These barriers are present due to the stigma associated with depression, as many individuals do not consider depression disease and believe it should not require any medical treatment. To overcome this stigma, there are several depression awareness programs started worldwide to make our population aware of depression. Thus, this was the aim of our study; it was conducted via a questionnaire survey with 300 random subjects. The results showed a significant variation among healthcare professionals vs. non-healthcare professionals. There was no significant difference among gender or age variations.