Author/Editor		Bertoncelj-Pustišek, S
Title		Izrazi depresivnosti v otroštvu
Type		monografija
Place		Ljubljana
Publisher		Medicinska fakulteta
Publication year		1994
Volume		str. 120
Language		slo
Abstract		We have researched the phenomena of depression in the prepubescent population in outpatient departments as well as within the population of school-children randomly selected for this survey. The research group of 160 children consisted of four groups, each including 40 children: healthy children, frequently ill children, children suffering from headaches, and children treated for different ailments, originating from emotional disturbances. Using evaluating methods we assessed depressive symptoms and classified them into appropriate syndromes employing DSM III-R criteria, and defined the level of depressive sympotms according to CDI criteria. A satisfactory insight into the child's mental state is achieved by a particular diagnostic method e.g. a clinical pedopsychiatric interview, carried out by the therapist and with the help of the child's parents, to discover the depressive state. It represents in a clear and assessable wey a wide range of phenomena of depressive symptomatology in this period of a child's development, and uncovers some characteristics of the life circumstances of children suffering from depression. The results of our research show that depression in this period of a child's development goes hand in hand with different medical difficulties and dysfunctions and that depressive symptomatology appear in continuity from the individual symptoms to the defined depressive syndrome. We also found that the individual depressive symptoms in the group of healthy children were lowest among all the groups. In the group of frequently ill children, among all poorer quar rter of depressive children, more are with the dysthymia than with the major depressive episodes. There is no difference between the sexes. The dysthymia and major depressive syndroms are more frequently present in the group of children suffering from headaches and children with emotional disturbances (in more than one third of the children), with no real differences among groups.(trunc.)
Descriptors		DEPRESSION DEPRESSIVE DISORDER INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL CHILD SEX FACTORS SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS