For example, one study found that dog ownership was associated with
lower rates of depression among women, but not men, and among single individuals but not married people.
Rates of depression among people living in residential aged - care facilities are believed to be much higher, at around 35 per cent.
Our nation faces serious challenges with our children and their parents with
rising rates of depression, anxiety, aggression, abuse and other serious emotional and behavioral problems.
For example, 22 percent of adolescent girls from affluent homes are clinically depressed — that's three times the national
rate of depression for adolescent girls.
The improved physical and mental health, along with the potentially
reduced rates of depression and anxiety, are just icing on the cake.
Previous research has suggested other factors that may contribute to
growing rates of depression and suicidal thoughts among adolescents, the authors point out in their paper.
Given the variability in prevalence estimates, it is not possible to reliably conclude
whether rates of depression and anxiety are greater for expecting and new fathers than men in the general Australian population.
It is common knowledge that many lawyers and law students struggle with high stress as well as
high rates of depression and substance abuse.
Earlier papers from this same research sample found
lower rates of depression and better sleep among the mothers in the intervention group.
Our nation faces serious challenges with our children and their parents with
rising rates of depression, anxiety, aggression, abuse and other serious emotional and behavioral problems.
As the New York Times reported, lawyers have the «greatest
rate of depression of any occupational group in the country.»
Numerous studies show that privileged adolescents are experiencing
epidemic rates of depression, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse — rates that are higher than those of any other socioeconomic group of young people in this country.
Until now, there has been a scarcity of medical research
measuring rates of depression in college athletes, said Eugene Hong, MD, associate dean for primary care and community health at the Drexel University College of Medicine, and the study's principal investigator.
Gladstone shares data on the
alarming rates of depression in children and adolescents, providing insight and recommendations on ways practitioners and educators, with the help of policymakers, can help identify and prevent depression in more young people.
One year after the storm a Harvard Medical School committee funded by the National Institute of Mental Health reported
doubled rates of depression and anxiety in the region.
Previous studies looking at the association between depressive symptoms and victimization have assessed levels of depression in samples of abused women and these studies have largely supported a heightened risk for depressive symptoms among abused women with prevalence
rates of depression over 50 % (e.g., Gleason 1993).
In several prospective studies, our group at Massachusetts General Hospital
examined rates of depression in children with ADHD.45 In a 4 - year follow - up, lifetime rates of comorbid depression in children with ADHD increased from 29 % at baseline to 45 % at average age 15.
According to statistics from the 2007 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the jobs with the lowest
rates of depression included engineering, architecture, and the sciences (for both men and women).
Although the study by Beekman et al differs from several others in that it is primarily concerned with assessing the performance of a screening test rather than
estimating rates of depression, the scale's validity might be questioned if the rates differed wildly between studies.
The construct validity of the scale was supported by significant relationships between activation scores and physicians» ratings of mania and between the depression index scores and
clinical ratings of depression.
However, study results are conflicting as to the
relative rates of depression in prepubertal boys and girls, and it is not clear whether the rates in adolescent boys rise, fall, or remain steady.
It is especially important to consider these associations in adolescence
when rates of depression and certain anxieties (e.g., panic disorder) increase (Costello et al. 2011; Lewinsohn et al. 1994).
«Although there is a range of other vulnerabilities that contribute to the emergence of girls» higher
rates of depression during adolescence, our study highlights an important malleable pathway that explains girls» greater risk of depression.»
«People who have arthritis, particularly rheumatoid arthritis, have
significant rates of depression,» says Eric L. Matteson, MD, chair of rheumatology at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn., who was not involved with the study.
Though correlation is not causation, a research report showed that there was a highly significant correlation between sugar consumption and the
annual rate of depression.1 We often medicate ourselves with food, and in the case of highly - refined sugars and starches, it lights up our happiness and satiety receptors, but over the long - term, dulls our body's natural ability to produce dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins.2, 3
We can already see that stress in a variety of metrics; partners are no longer permanent, associates have little chance of becoming partners, contract lawyers and paralegals continue to replace full - time lawyer hires, and there is a higher than
average rate of depression and addiction among lawyers.
Law school has long had a reputation as a grueling experience, leading not only to high levels of stress and anxiety but also
elevated rates of depression and substance abuse.
This study's major aim was to diagnostically
assess rates of depression and anxiety conditions in a sample of treatment - seeking, adolescent drug users.
Thematic analyses of the personal narratives demonstrated that negative cognitions (e.g., helplessness; feeling unsupported) about deployment were associated with higher
rates of depression prior to group participation.
Methamphetamine use and withdrawal is significantly associated with depression and
although rates of depression and methamphetamine use are on the increase, it is still not clear how best to manage people with these co-morbid conditions.
Weekly ratings of depression using the 24 item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM - D - 24), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and the Global Assessment Scale (GAS); and weekly ratings of drinking using a timeline follow back method and the Addiction Severity Index.