Raja Dhiraj, Singh Harpreet, Chail Amit, Dangi Ankit
Department of Psychiatry, 151 Base Hospital, Guwahati, Assam, India.
Department of Psychiatry, Command Hospital (Southern Command), Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Ind Psychiatry J. 2020 Jan-Jun;29(1):88-92. doi: 10.4103/ipj.ipj_71_20. Epub 2020 Nov 7.
Understanding the prevalence of a psychiatric disorder among children is essential for formulating sound public health policy.
This study is aimed to estimate the prevalence of depression in urban school-going adolescents and its association with age, sex, and birth order.
A total of 500 participants in the age group 12-16 years from a working-class community, studying in an urban school, were selected for the study. The children with a score greater than or equal to 19 on the CDI scale were taken for the second phase, and diagnosis of depression was confirmed by a psychiatric consultant through a clinical interview. In clinically diagnosed cases, all help was rendered, including follow-up.
The prevalence of clinical depression among school-going children of age group 12-16 years was 8.4%. There was no significant gender difference in the prevalence of clinical depression. Significantly, more children had clinical depression in the age group of 14-16 years than in the 12-14 years of age group. Depressive symptoms were more among children with first birth order.
These results show that depression is common in school going urban adolescents in India and highlight the need for screening school-age children for depression so that early intervention can be provided.
了解儿童精神疾病的患病率对于制定合理的公共卫生政策至关重要。
本研究旨在估计城市中上学青少年的抑郁症患病率及其与年龄、性别和出生顺序的关联。
从一个工人阶级社区、在城市学校就读的12至16岁年龄组中总共选取500名参与者进行研究。在儿童抑郁量表（CDI）上得分大于或等于19分的儿童进入第二阶段，由精神科顾问通过临床访谈确诊抑郁症。对于临床诊断的病例，提供了包括随访在内的所有帮助。
12至16岁上学儿童中临床抑郁症的患病率为8.4%。临床抑郁症的患病率在性别上无显著差异。值得注意的是，14至16岁年龄组中患有临床抑郁症的儿童比12至14岁年龄组的更多。头胎出生的儿童中抑郁症状更多。
这些结果表明，抑郁症在印度城市上学青少年中很常见，并强调有必要对学龄儿童进行抑郁症筛查，以便能提供早期干预。
