Depression due to Covid-19 on Teenagers during Lockdown- A Review by Clinical Pharmacist
Journal Title: International Journal of Science and Innovative Research - Year 2021, Vol 2, Issue 01
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the prevalence of depression in teenager during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also aimed at identifying the determinants of depression. As a result of COVID-19, teenagers and adolescents have experienced unknown interruptions to their daily lives. It is awaited that this disruption may be precipitants of mental illness, including Anxiety, Depression, and other stress-related symptoms. The information was analysed in three consecutive levels, such as univariate, bivariate, and multivariate. Around 15% of the teenager reportedly had moderately severe depression. The binary logistic regression suggests that older students have greater depression (95%). It is also evident that student who provided private tuition in these pre-pandemic periods had depression (QR = 1.199). It is expected that government could work to fix the academic delays and financial problems to reduce depression in teenager during COVID-19. Depression was determined by using the patient health questionnaire (PHQ - 9). PHQ-9 is an easy way to use in a teenager for screening depression of responses that are used to predict depression of an individual and what state is during the survey. PHQ-9 is useful to detecting depression. The level of depression
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Gatha Patel , *Dharmendra Singh Rajput
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