Mahin Yazdani^*1, Hassan Asady², Mohammadali Greyshizade², Abdolrasool Safaian²

¹Infectious disease specialist in Calvert Memorial Hospital, Huntingtown, Maryland, USA

²Medical sciences of Tabriz University, Iran

*Corresponding Author:Mahin Yazdani, Infectious disease specialist in Calvert Memorial Hospital, Huntingtown, Maryland, USA, Tel: +1 (410) 535-1695; Fax: +1 (410) 535-8684; E-mail:mahin1329@hotmail.com

Citation: Mahin Yazdani, Hassan Asady, Mohammadali Greyshizade, Abdolrasool Safaian (2016) Depression in Adolescent Students, Tabriz, Iran, 2007. J Nursing Palliat serv 1: 104.

Copyright: © 2016 Mahin Yazdani, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Received date: October 25, 2016; Accepted date: November 29, 2016; Published date: December 06, 2016.

Adolescents can have mental, emotional and behavioral problems, that are real painful, and costly. Mental disorders are sources of stress for adolescents and their families, schools and communities. Studies show that 9 of every 100 adolescents may have major depression. It can cause by biology environment or combination of two. For example, biological factors generics, chemical imbalances in body, environmental factors including exposure to violence, extreme stress and loss of an important person. So, it seems necessary to investigate in this area subjects.

This descriptive study was concerned to examine depression in adolescent students and effects of related factors in schools of Tabriz, Iran. Data was gathered by the center of epidemiological studies depression scale for children from 903 adolescent students, including 455 boys and 448 girls who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Data were analyzed by spss/pc.

Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC)

DURING THE PAST WEEK           Not At All A Little Some A Lot

1.I was bothered by things that usually don’t bother me. _____ _____ _____ _____

2.I did not feel like eating, I wasn’t very hungry. _____ _____ _____ _____

3.I wasn’t able to feel happy, even when my family or _____ _____ _____ _____friends tried to help me feel better.

4.I felt like I was just as good as other kids. _____ _____ _____ _____

5.I felt like I couldn’t pay attention to what I was doing. _____ _____ _____ _____

DURING THE PAST WEEK           Not At All A Little Some A Lot

6.I felt down and unhappy. _____ _____ _____ _____

7.I felt like I was too tired to do things. _____ _____ _____ _____

8.I felt like something good was going to happen. _____ _____ _____ _____

9.I felt like things I did before didn’t work out right. _____ _____ _____ _____

10.I felt scared. _____ _____ _____ _____

DURING THE PAST WEEK         Not At All A Little Some A Lot

11.I didn’t sleep as well as I usually sleep. _____ _____ _____ _____

12.I was happy. _____ _____ _____ _____

13.I was more quiet than usual. _____ _____ _____ _____

14.I felt lonely, like I didn’t have any friends. _____ _____ _____ _____

15.I felt like kids I know were not friendly or that they didn’t want to be with me. _____ _____ _____ _____

DURING THE PAST WEEK        Not At All A Little Some A Lot

16.I had a good time. _____ _____ _____ _____

17.I felt like crying. _____ _____ _____ _____

18.I felt sad. _____ _____ _____ _____

19.I felt people didn’t like me. _____ _____ _____ _____

20.It was hard to get started doing things. _____ _____ _____ _____

The results showed that depression is a common event among adolescents. It was more in girls. There was correlation between depression and some factors such as: increased age, school and family problems, life events and self- concept of adolescents (p<0.001) (Figure1-4) (Table 1-3)

Figure 1: Sex frequency.

Figure 2: level of depression.

Figure 3: level of depression & sex.

Figure 4: level of depression & age.

Table1: depression & school problems.

Table 2: Demographic characteristics.

Table 3: Family problems.

Depression is the most common mental disorders and a serious health problem in the world. It causes social, educational and biological problems in adolescents. Physiological changes during adolescence cause mental distress and make them more prone to depression. So, early diagnosis and treatment is very important.

It is important to pay attention: Caring for every adolescent mental health; Increase public awareness about the importance of protecting and nurturing the mental health of adolescent; Foster recognition that many adolescent have mental health problems that are real, painful and sometimes severs; Make time to listen, make time to talk.