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Volume 4, Issue 3 (Suppl) Health Care: Current Reviews
ISSN: 2375-4273 HCCR, an open access journal
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Primary Care Congress 2016
September 19-20, 2016
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September 19-20, 2016 Phoenix, USA
2nd Annual Congress and Medicare Expo on
Primary Care & General Pediatrics
Depression in adolescent students, Tabriz, Iran
Mahin Yazdani Zonouz, Hassan Asady, Mohammadali Greyshizade and Abdolrasool Safaian
Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Iran
Introduction: 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.
Aim: Aim of this study was to examine depression in adolescent students and effects of related factors in schools of Tabriz, Iran.
Materials & Method: Data was gathered through 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
software/PC.
Results: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<0.05).
Conclusion: It is necessary that parents, primary healthcare centers and healthcare teams should pay more attention to risk factors
of depression in adolescents.
Biography
Mahin Yazdani Zonouz is a Registerd Nurse of Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery at Medical Sciences University of Tabriz. She has completed her MS in Mental Health
& Psychiatric Nursing of Medical Sciences. She has presented four articles in international conference. She has more than 25 years of experiences as a Nursing
Instructor in Clinical Nursing Education.
Mahin Yazdani Zonouz et al., Health Care: Current Reviews 2016, 4:3(Suppl)