ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Umaporn Trangkasombat, M.D. Dusit Likanapichitkul, M.D.

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Depression in junior high school students in the Bangkok metropolis

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of The Psychiatric Association of Thailand, Vol. 41 No.3 July-September 1996, P 162-172

รายละเอียด / Details:

The objective of this research was to study the prevalance, symptomatology and psychosocial factors associated with depression in junior high school students in the Bangkok Metropolis. The sample consisted of 1,264 students aged 10-17 years with the mean age of 14.0 years. The ratio of girls to boys was 1: 1.2. By using the Children's Depression Inventory,Thai version, the study revealed 40.8 % of the sample as having significant depressive symptoms (total CDI score>/15) and 13.3% as having marked depressive symptoms (total CDI score>/21). The analysis of individual item response showed that depressed children endorsed items on cognition especially self - perception and performance and physical symptoms at higher frequencies than items related to direct expression of depressed mood. The study also examined various psychosocial stressors. Compared with the nondepressed group, the depressed group had higher rates of psychosocial stressors. The stressors found to be related to depression were low academic achievement, broken family, poor parent-child relationship, having other people as caretakers, the primary caretaker having low education and low income level, mental health problems in parents and unhappy family life. The study found depression to be an important mental health problem in school children. Intervention strategies such as counseling programs for students, educational programs for teachers on childhood emotional problems and campaigns to strengthen and empower families are mandatory in reducing the magnitude of the problem.

Keywords: depression, students, Bangkok

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 1996

Address: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University

Code: 0000053

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-6985

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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