Depression Symptoms Among Ever Married Females Attending Primary Health Care Units in Dairut City

NCT ID: NCT03846674

Last Updated: 2019-02-20

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Total Enrollment: 400 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2018-12-22
• Study Completion Date: 2019-06-30

Brief Summary

Depression is defined as a cluster of specific symptoms with associated impairment. The clinical and diagnostic features of the disorder are broadly similar in adolescents and adults.

Nevertheless, depression in adolescents is more often missed than it is in adults, possibly because of the prominence of irritability, mood reactivity, and fluctuating symptoms in adolescents.

While depression is the leading cause of disability for both males and females, the burden of depression is 50% higher for females than males. In fact, depression is the leading cause of disease burden for women in both high-income and low- and middle-income countries.

Detailed Description

The prevalence of depression in children is low (<1% in most studies) with no sex differences, and then rises substantially throughout adolescence.

Okasha found that the lifetime prevalence of depression in urban and rural Egyptian populations to be 11.4 and 19.7% Several studies show that depression during adolescence is a risk factor of academic failures, marriage struggles, suicide attempts, interpersonal conflicts, unemployment, drug abuse; it is also a strong predictor of adulthood depression.

Girls married too early are also more likely to experience domestic violence, abuse and forced sexual relations.

Similarly early married females when interact with new individuals after marriage are unable to deal them psychologically which is mostly due to the bad behaviours shown from in-laws towards them thus leading to lower self-esteem, increasing their risk of clinical depression which on extreme aspect can cause suicidal attempts.

Conditions

Depressive Symptoms

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: CASE_CROSSOVER
• Study Time Perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Married
• Divorced
• Separated
• Widow

Exclusion Criteria

• Cases diagnosed with mental disorders
• History of mental disorders
• Family history of mental disorders

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Assiut University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

MFMukhtar

principal investigator

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Ahmed K Ibrahim

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Assiut University

Locations

Primary health care center

Asyut, , Egypt

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Egypt

Central Contacts

Manal M Farghal

Role: CONTACT

menaalmkhtar@gmail.com

01030776360 ext. 002

Facility Contacts

Manal M Farghal

Role: primary

menaalmkhtar@gmail.com

01030776360 ext. 002

Other Identifiers

17100426

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id