Adolescent depression and stressful life events: A case-control study within diagnostic subgroups

Autor:	Anne-Liis von Knorring, I. Gunilla Olsson, Marie-Louise Nordström, Hans Arinell
Rok vydání:	1999
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Life events Case-control study Total population medicine.disease Young adolescents Psychiatry and Mental health Social support Conduct disorder medicine medicine.symptom Psychiatry Psychology Suicidal ideation Depression (differential diagnoses) Clinical psychology
Zdroj:	Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. 53:339-346
ISSN:	1502-4725 0803-9488
DOI:	10.1080/080394899427809
Popis:	Life events in depressed adolescents were studied in a case-control design. A total population of 16- to 17-year-old students in the 1st year of high school were screened for depression (n=2300). Every student with indication of depression and one control matched for sex, age, and grade in school was interviewed diagnostically (DICA-R-A). All participating matched pairs in whom the control had no lifetime depressive disorder were used for analysis of life events (177 pairs). They were divided into six subgroups on the basis of depressive and conduct disorders. Depressed and control adolescents were compared with regard to 21 events and conditions of stressful character. Events for total life were studied. Adolescents with depressive disorder had experienced more stressful events and conditions in life than healthy controls. The most characteristic events concerned the important relations to family and friends. The subgroup with comorbid conduct disorder was the most burdened and had much more illness, con...
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