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The Prevalence of Distress and Depression among Women in Rural Sichuan Province
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 8, p e0161097 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016.
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Abstract
- Background In this paper, we report findings regarding the prevalence of expressed distress and depressive conditions among women living in a rural region of Sichuan Province. As well, we know of no data among women in rural China that examine whether “depression,” as categorically defined in classifications such as the DSM, adequately captures the expressed distress and symptomatic complaints of women in rural China. Methods A multistage sampling method was employed to recruit the target population. The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) was used to measure distress symptoms, and MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview (MINI) was employed to determine the prevalence of diagnosable depression and other disorders. Results Among 1898 rural women, 12.4% (236) scored ≥16 on the CES-D, indicative of distress, and a subset of 7.7% (146) had scores ≥21, highly suggestive of a clinically significant disorder. We found that 49.8% women with ≥16 CES-D score were identified as showing features consistent with a current major depressive episode (MDE) vs. 1.9% in a sample of randomly selected women with
- Subjects :
- Rural Population
Research Validity
Medical Doctors
Health Care Providers
lcsh:Medicine
Social Sciences
Cultural Anthropology
Geographical Locations
0302 clinical medicine
Sociology
Medicine and Health Sciences
Prevalence
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Young adult
lcsh:Science
Major depressive episode
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Schools
Multidisciplinary
Depression
Research Assessment
Middle Aged
Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale
Anxiety Disorders
3. Good health
Religion
Professions
Distress
Female
medicine.symptom
Research Article
Adult
China
medicine.medical_specialty
Asia
Adolescent
Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Target population
Research and Analysis Methods
Neuroses
Education
Interviews as Topic
Young Adult
03 medical and health sciences
Diagnostic Medicine
Mental Health and Psychiatry
Humans
Psychiatry
Aged
Mini-international neuropsychiatric interview
Mood Disorders
business.industry
lcsh:R
030227 psychiatry
Health Care
Anthropology
People and Places
lcsh:Q
Population Groupings
Rural women
business
Stress, Psychological
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....10413ba8d8385ba614b69d6667094dab