ASSESSMENT OF DEPRESSION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS USING PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE

Objective: To determine prevalence of depression among university students in Pakistan according to patient health questionnaire. Study Design: Cross-sectional survey. Place and Duration of Study: University of Karachi, from May 2017 till Aug 2017. Methodology: Depression was assessed by us...

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Autores principales:	Syeda Rizwana Jafri, Uzma Waseem, Hafsa Nazeer, Amna Muneeb, Muhammad Bilal Afzal, Khansa Qadir
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Publicado:	Army Medical College Rawalpindi 2020
Materias:	depression patient healthcare questionnaire university students Medicine R Medicine (General) R5-920
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c8868b86c63045c494f5b52286ede0c32021-12-02T18:03:02ZASSESSMENT OF DEPRESSION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS USING PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE0030-96482411-8842https://doaj.org/article/c8868b86c63045c494f5b52286ede0c32020-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://pafmj.org/index.php/PAFMJ/article/view/5582https://doaj.org/toc/0030-9648https://doaj.org/toc/2411-8842Objective: To determine prevalence of depression among university students in Pakistan according to patient health questionnaire. Study Design: Cross-sectional survey. Place and Duration of Study: University of Karachi, from May 2017 till Aug 2017. Methodology: Depression was assessed by using Patient Health Questionnaire. Questionnaire was distributed to 130 students of different departments. Results: Response rate of our study was 72.30%. Males were slightly more (51.10%) than females in our survey. Majority of our survey participants belonged to on-campus (59.60%) courses. Students belonging to Punjabi community were having the highest participation (35.10%) in the survey. Urdu speaking and Pathan students were next in line with higher participation (33% and 21.30% respectively). The number of the students from Anatomy department was in higher proportion (59.60%). A big majority of students belonged to moderate to severe depression categories (54.30%, 13.80% and 10.60% with moderate, moderately severe and severe depression respectively). Females were suffering more from moderate to severe depression (78.20%) than the males. Students younger than 22 years of age were suffering more from depression according to our study (92.50%). Sindhi students were all suffering from severe depression while those of Urdu speaking were in moderate to moderately severe category. Conclusion: Hence it is concluded from our survey that four out of five students are suffering from depression and it was also affected by different demographic variables as well.Syeda Rizwana JafriUzma WaseemHafsa NazeerAmna MuneebMuhammad Bilal AfzalKhansa QadirArmy Medical College Rawalpindiarticledepressionpatient healthcare questionnaireuniversity studentsMedicineRMedicine (General)R5-920ENPakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, Vol 70, Iss 5, Pp 1443-1447 (2020)
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spellingShingle	depression patient healthcare questionnaire university students Medicine R Medicine (General) R5-920 Syeda Rizwana Jafri Uzma Waseem Hafsa Nazeer Amna Muneeb Muhammad Bilal Afzal Khansa Qadir ASSESSMENT OF DEPRESSION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS USING PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE
description	Objective: To determine prevalence of depression among university students in Pakistan according to patient health questionnaire. Study Design: Cross-sectional survey. Place and Duration of Study: University of Karachi, from May 2017 till Aug 2017. Methodology: Depression was assessed by using Patient Health Questionnaire. Questionnaire was distributed to 130 students of different departments. Results: Response rate of our study was 72.30%. Males were slightly more (51.10%) than females in our survey. Majority of our survey participants belonged to on-campus (59.60%) courses. Students belonging to Punjabi community were having the highest participation (35.10%) in the survey. Urdu speaking and Pathan students were next in line with higher participation (33% and 21.30% respectively). The number of the students from Anatomy department was in higher proportion (59.60%). A big majority of students belonged to moderate to severe depression categories (54.30%, 13.80% and 10.60% with moderate, moderately severe and severe depression respectively). Females were suffering more from moderate to severe depression (78.20%) than the males. Students younger than 22 years of age were suffering more from depression according to our study (92.50%). Sindhi students were all suffering from severe depression while those of Urdu speaking were in moderate to moderately severe category. Conclusion: Hence it is concluded from our survey that four out of five students are suffering from depression and it was also affected by different demographic variables as well.
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author	Syeda Rizwana Jafri Uzma Waseem Hafsa Nazeer Amna Muneeb Muhammad Bilal Afzal Khansa Qadir
author_facet	Syeda Rizwana Jafri Uzma Waseem Hafsa Nazeer Amna Muneeb Muhammad Bilal Afzal Khansa Qadir
author_sort	Syeda Rizwana Jafri
title	ASSESSMENT OF DEPRESSION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS USING PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE
title_short	ASSESSMENT OF DEPRESSION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS USING PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE
title_full	ASSESSMENT OF DEPRESSION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS USING PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE
title_fullStr	ASSESSMENT OF DEPRESSION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS USING PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE
title_full_unstemmed	ASSESSMENT OF DEPRESSION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS USING PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE
title_sort	assessment of depression among university students using patient health questionnaire
publisher	Army Medical College Rawalpindi
publishDate	2020
url	https://doaj.org/article/c8868b86c63045c494f5b52286ede0c3
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ASSESSMENT OF DEPRESSION AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS USING PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE

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