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Adolescent Depressive Symptoms (adolescent + depressive_symptom)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Psychology	50%
Medical Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

Brief Screening for Adolescent Depressive Symptoms in the Emergency Department

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 1 2008
Maia S. Rutman MD
Abstract Background:, Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder among adolescents and is more prevalent among those seeking care in the emergency department (ED). However, adolescents are rarely screened for depressive symptoms in the pediatric emergency department (PED). Objectives:, To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of one- and two-item screens for depressive symptoms compared to the 20-question Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD) among adolescents seeking care in a PED. Methods:, This was a cross-sectional study of a convenience sample of adolescents 12,17 years old presenting to an urban PED with subcritical illness or injury. Participants completed three screening instruments: the two-question screen, the single-question screen, and the CESD. Results:, A total of 321 patients were approached to enter the study, of whom 212 (66%) agreed to participate. Seventy-eight (37%) of the study participants screened positive for depression on the CESD using a cutoff score of ,16. The two-question screen had a sensitivity of 78% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 73% to 84%) and specificity of 82% (95% CI = 77% to 87%) for depressive symptoms compared with the CESD. The single-question screen had a sensitivity of 56% (95% CI = 50% to 63%) and specificity of 93% (95% CI = 90% to 96%) compared with the CESD. Conclusions:, The two-question screen is a sensitive and specific initial screen for depressive symptoms in adolescents being seen in the PED. This quick, simple instrument would be ideal for use in the busy PED setting and would allow clinicians to identify adolescents who require more extensive psychiatric evaluation. [source]

Family Relationships and Adolescent Psychosocial Outcomes: Converging Findings From Eastern and Western Cultures

JOURNAL OF RESEARCH ON ADOLESCENCE, Issue 4 2004
Julia Dmitrieva
This study investigated the role of parent,adolescent relationships in mediating the association between family-related negative life events and adolescent depressive symptoms and problem behaviors among 1,696 eleventh graders from the United States (n=201), China (n=502), Korea (n=497), and Czech Republic (n=496). Results indicated that perceived parental involvement and parent,adolescent conflict mediated the link between family-related life events and adolescent depressed mood. The path from family-related life events to adolescent problem behaviors was mediated by perceived parental involvement, parent,adolescent conflict, and perceived parental sanctions of adolescent misconduct. With the exception of minor cross-cultural differences in the magnitude of associations among variables, this study revealed considerable similarity in the association of family factors with adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptomatology. The findings contribute to the growing literature on culture-general developmental processes. [source]

That Which Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger: Runaway Youth's Resilience to Depression in the Family Context

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPSYCHIATRY, Issue 2 2010
Gizem Erdem
The present study sought to uncover the relationship between risk and protective factors for depressive symptomatology among runaway youth. To that aim, 3 models of resiliency,the compensatory, risk-protective, and challenge models,were tested separately on girls and boys. The data came from a cross-sectional survey on a sample of 140 runaway adolescents between the ages of 12 and 17 years who were recruited from the only runaway crisis shelter in a large Midwestern city. Risk factors in the proposed model included primary caretaker's depressive symptoms, family conflict, and adolescent's and primary caretaker's verbal aggression; protective factors included adolescent's report of task-oriented coping and family cohesion. Findings supported the challenge model for predicting adolescent depressive symptoms, suggesting that moderate levels of risk can be beneficial for these runaway adolescents. In addition, risk and protective factors differed by adolescent gender. Implications for preventive interventions and future research are discussed. [source]

Maternal Socialization of Positive Affect: The Impact of Invalidation on Adolescent Emotion Regulation and Depressive Symptomatology

CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 5 2008
Marie B. H. Yap
This study examined the relations among maternal socialization of positive affect (PA), adolescent emotion regulation (ER), and adolescent depressive symptoms. Two hundred early adolescents, 11,13 years old, provided self-reports of ER strategies and depressive symptomatology; their mothers provided self-reports of socialization responses to adolescent PA. One hundred and sixty-three mother,adolescent dyads participated in 2 interaction tasks. Adolescents whose mothers responded in an invalidating or "dampening" manner toward their PA displayed more emotionally dysregulated behaviors and reported using maladaptive ER strategies more frequently. Adolescents whose mothers dampened their PA more frequently during mother,adolescent interactions, and girls whose mothers reported invalidating their PA, reported more depressive symptoms. Adolescent use of maladaptive ER strategies mediated the association between maternal invalidation of PA and early adolescents' concurrent depressive symptoms. [source]