Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-r5fsc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-23T01:05:29.007Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Clinical profiles relating gender and depressive symptoms among adolescents ascertained by the Beck Depression Inventory II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

R. Coelho ,
A. Martins  and
H. Barros
R. Coelho*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal
A. Martins
Affiliation:
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal
H. Barros
Affiliation:
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Porto Medical School, Porto, Portugal
*
*Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (R. Coelho).
Get access

Summary

Purpose

Depressive disorders (DD) in adolescence are often misdiagnosed and under-recognised. A major clinical problem regards the high rate of co-morbidity with other disorders, namely substance abuse. The aim of this study was to assess the discriminative power of the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) to characterise specific social–demographic variables related to DD in adolescence.

Methods

A Portuguese version of the BDI-II and a social–demographic questionnaire were administered to 775 Portuguese adolescents (312 males, 463 females; mean age: 16.9 years); 83 adolescents performed a clinical interview following DSM-IV criteria.

Results

Mean BDI-II Portuguese version (BDI-II-P) total score was 10.31 (standard deviation: 8.4), with females reporting more depressive symptoms than males (P < 0.001). Low academic achievement, sleep disturbances, and alcohol consumption were consistently associated with depressive symptoms for both genders. Higher tobacco consumption was significantly associated with depressive symptoms in females. Familial factors did not appear to be associated with depressive symptoms in males. However, a higher frequency of siblings, having separated parents as well as a more extreme perception of the mother's educational style were consistently associated with depressive symptoms in females.

Conclusion

The BDI-II-P showed discriminative power to characterise social–demographic variables related to DD especially in adolescent females.

Keywords

Depressive symptomsBeck Depression Inventory IIFamilial factorsPsychosocial factors
Type
Short Communications
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , July 2002 , pp. 222 - 226
Copyright
Copyright © Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS 2002

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth ed. Washington, DC: APA; 1994.Google Scholar
Baker, MMilich, RManolis, MPeer interactions of dysphoric adolescents. J Abnorm Child Psychol 1996;24:241–55.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Beck, ASteer, RManual for the Beck Depression Inventory. San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corporation; 1987.Google Scholar
Beck, ASteer, RBrown, GManual for the Beck Depression Inventory II. San Antonio, TX: Psychological Corporation; 1996.Google Scholar
Beck, AWard, CMendelson, MMock, JErbaugh, JAn inventory for measuring depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1961; 4:561–71.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Birmaher, BKaufman, JBrent, DDahl, RPerel, JA-Shabbout, Met al.Neuro-endocrine response to 5-hydroxy-L-tryptophan in prepubertal children at high risk of major depressive disorder. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1997;54:1113–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cicchetti, DToth, SThe development of depression in children and adolescents. Am Psychol 1998;53:221–41.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Coelho, RBraga-Oliveira, LMartins, APrata, JBarros, HFactores psico-sociais e asma brônquica na adolescência. Rev Port Psicossom 1999;1:131–43.Google Scholar
Connelly, BJohnston, DBrown, IMackay, SBlackstock, EThe prevalence of depression in a high school population. Adolescence 1993;28:149–58.Google Scholar
Fergusson, DLynskey, MHorwood, LComorbidity between depressive disorders and nicotine dependence in a cohort of 16-year-olds. Arc Gen Psychiatry 1996;53:1043–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fleming, JOfford, DEpidemiology of childhood depressive disorders: a critical review. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1990;29:571–80.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Giaconia, RReinharz, HSilverman, APakis, BFrost, ACohen, EAges of onset of psychiatric disorders in a community population of older adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1993;33:706–17.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Guy, WECDEU Assessment Manual for Psychopharmacology. Washington, DC, USA: Department of Health, Education and Welfare; 1976. p. 217–22.Google Scholar
Hamilton, MA rating scale for depression. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1960;23:56–62.Google ScholarPubMed
Harrington, RRutter, MFombonne, EDevelopmental pathways in depression: multiple meanings, antecedents, and end-points. Dev Psychopathol 1996;8:601–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hoffmann, JSu, SStressful life events and adolescent substance use and depression: conditional and gender differentiated effects. Subst Use Misuse 1998;33:2219–62.Google ScholarPubMed
Jolly, JWiesner, DWherry, JJolly, JDykman, RGender and the comparison of self and observer ratings of anxiety and depression in adolescents. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1994;33:1284–8.Google ScholarPubMed
Keller, MLavori, PBeardslee, WWunder, JRyan, NDepression in children and adolescents: new data on ‘undertreatment’ and a literature review on the efficacy of available treatments. J Affect Disord 1991;21:163–71.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kovacs, MAkiskal, HGatsonis, CParrone, PChildhood-onset dysthymic disorder: clinical features and prospective naturalistic outcome. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1994;51:365–74.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Martins, ACoelho, RBarros, HImpacte do stress da época de exames e sintomatologia depressiva numa amostra de estudantes universitários. Revista de Psiquiatria da FMP (XIX) 1997(3-4): 35–9.Google Scholar
McGuffin, PKatz, RWatkins, SRu-therford, JA hospital-based twin register of the heritability of DSM-IV unipolar depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1996;53:129–36.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Moscato, BRussell, MZielezny, MBromet, EEgri, GMudar, Pet al.Gender differences in the relation between depressive symptoms and alcohol problems: a longitudinal perspective. Am J Epidemiol 1997;146:966–74.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Nolen-Hoeksema, SGirgus, JThe emergence of gender differences in depression during adolescence. Psychol Bull 1994;115: 424–43.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Steingard, RRenshaw, PYurgelvn-Todd, DAppelmans, KLyoo, IShorrick, Ket al.Structural abnormalities in brain magnetic resonance images of depressed children. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1996;35:307–11.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sussman, SDent, CGalaif, EThe correlates of substance abuse and dependence among adolescents at high risk for drug abuse. J Subst Abuse 1997;9:241–55.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tenenhaus, MYoung, FAn analysis and synthesis of multiple correspondence analysis, optimal scaling, dual scaling, homogeneity analysis and other methods for quantifying categorical multivariate data. Psychometrika 1985;50:91–119.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weissman, MWarner, VWickramaratne, PMoreau, DOlfson, MOffspring of depressed parents 10 years later. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1997;54:932–40.Google ScholarPubMed
Windle, RWindle, MAn investigation of adolescents’ substance use behaviors, depressed affect, and suicidal behaviors. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1997;38:921–9.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Submit a response

Comments

No Comments have been published for this article.