Abstract
Background: Major depressive disorder is a highly prevalent disorder in adolescence that entails significant lifetime risk for repeated episodes of depression and other disorders Furthermore, it can have a negative impact on academic and psycho-social functioning with long-lasting effects. Thus, identification of the most relevant risk factors for the continuation of major depressive disorder is important.
Method: Seventy one female adolescents between 10 and 18 years who were identified from a community sample as having major depressive disorder were assessed regarding stress vulnerability, stress symptoms, coping behavior and physical complaints. These variables were tested as risk factors for the persistence of major depression six months later.
Results: Factors having the highest predictive power for the continuation of major depression were avoidant coping, stress vulnerability and stress related psychic symptoms.
Conclusions: Stress symptoms, stress vulnerability, and a strategy of avoidant coping behavior are risk factors for the prolonged existence of major depression and should particularly be considered in prevention of major depression and intervention for depressive symptoms.
Keywords: Adolescents, coping, major depression, risk factors, stress.
Adolescent Psychiatry
Title:Stress-related Risk Factors for the Maintenance of Major Depression in Adolescent Girls
Volume: 4 Issue: 3
Author(s): Ulrike Schmidt-Gies and Reinhold Laessle
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Keywords: Adolescents, coping, major depression, risk factors, stress.
Abstract: Background: Major depressive disorder is a highly prevalent disorder in adolescence that entails significant lifetime risk for repeated episodes of depression and other disorders Furthermore, it can have a negative impact on academic and psycho-social functioning with long-lasting effects. Thus, identification of the most relevant risk factors for the continuation of major depressive disorder is important.
Method: Seventy one female adolescents between 10 and 18 years who were identified from a community sample as having major depressive disorder were assessed regarding stress vulnerability, stress symptoms, coping behavior and physical complaints. These variables were tested as risk factors for the persistence of major depression six months later.
Results: Factors having the highest predictive power for the continuation of major depression were avoidant coping, stress vulnerability and stress related psychic symptoms.
Conclusions: Stress symptoms, stress vulnerability, and a strategy of avoidant coping behavior are risk factors for the prolonged existence of major depression and should particularly be considered in prevention of major depression and intervention for depressive symptoms.
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Schmidt-Gies Ulrike and Laessle Reinhold, Stress-related Risk Factors for the Maintenance of Major Depression in Adolescent Girls, Adolescent Psychiatry 2014; 4 (3) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/221067660403140912161834
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/221067660403140912161834 |
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