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Volume 13 Issue 6 (June) 2024

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Evaluation of Various Coping Strategies in Adolescents Presenting with Depressive Disorders at a Tertiary Care Hospital
Poonam K Muniya, Prashant C Jariwala, Raghvendra S Singh

Background: Depression is a common mental disorder cutting across age, gender and socioeconomic status in India and across the world. To scale up and priorities interventions to promote positive mental health requires an understanding of how mental illness differs across population groups and geographies. Hence; the present study was conducted to evaluatevarious coping strategies in adolescents with depressive disorders. Materials &Methods: The present study was conducted in Department of Psychiatry, GMERS Medical College, Rajpipla, Gujarat (India) to evaluate various coping strategies in adolescents with depressive disorders. A total of 100 adolescents were enrolled in the present study. Complete demographic and clinical details of all the patients were obtained. A Performa was made consisting of self-framed questionnaire. It consisted of knowledge and coping strategies employed in relation to depressive disorders among adolescents. All the results were recorded on a Microsoft excel sheet and were subjected to statistical analysis using SPSS software. Results: A total of 100 subjects were enrolled. The mean age of the patients was 15.4 years. 57 percent of the subjects were boys while the remaining were girls. 77 subjects were of urban residence while the remaining were of rural residence. While assessing various coping strategies, Positive reappraisal, listening to music, Other-blame, Catastrophizing and Rumination were found to be present in 23 percent, 21 percent, 20 percent, 15 percent and 22 percent of the patients respectively. Conclusion: As children grow older, their coping repertoire increases and shifts fromprimarily external, behaviorally oriented coping strategies to more internal, cognitivelybased ones. Hence; adequate attention should be given to adolescents for improving their mental health.

 
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