Author: Dr. Piyus Raj Prabhat
DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.70798/PP/020300032
Abstract: As estimated by WHO, depression shall become the second largest illness in terms of morbidity by another decade in the world, already one out of every five women, and twelve men have depression.The objective of present cross-sectional survey-based study was to find out the existence of depression among SC and ST students in Jalpaiguri district. A total 426 number of adolescents’ response were collected with Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) from high schools in both rural and urban areas. It was found that, the mean difference in between Rural and Urban areas students regarding their level of depression were statistically significant (χ2 = 11.589, p=.009) at p <.0.01level. >
Keywords: Depression, Adolescents, SC & ST Students, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II).
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