The relationship of demographic profile and depression in DLSHSI College of Medicine students from S.Y. 2013-2014

Date of Completion

2014

Document Type

Research Project

Degree Name

Community Medicine

Keywords

Depression

Abstract

This study used cross sectional type of research design. Three hundred sixty six (366) students were gathered and have been selected using stratified random sampling. Self-administered questionnaires were used to gather information. Chi-square test was utilized for data analysis. The study had shown that there were 41 respondents (12.39%) with depression, and 290 respondents (87.61%) without depression. Among the 223 respondents that stated they were religious persons, 21 respondents (9.42%) were considered depressed which showed a significant relationship where the prevalence ratio yielded was 0.509 with a 95% confidence interval of 0.288-0.897. All the other factors like age, gender, family structure, family income and year level had not shown an increase in prevalence of depression.

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