Public Awareness of Depression – An Informal Clinical Study

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Published: Feb 3, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47191/ijmscrs/v2-i2-01
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Depression Mood Disorder Mental Illnesses Stigma Barriers Counselling

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Rajwinder Dhaliwal
Ishita Attri
Shaminder Singh Dhillon
Kapil Dev
Naina Mehmi
Panshul Attri

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The real challenge regards depression is the barriers associated with its diagnosis and treatment. These barriers are present due to the stigma associated with depression, as many individuals do not consider depression disease and believe it should not require any medical treatment.  To overcome this stigma, there are several depression awareness programs started worldwide to make our population aware of depression. Thus, this was the aim of our study; it was conducted via a questionnaire survey with 300 random subjects. The results showed a significant variation among healthcare professionals vs. non-healthcare professionals. There was no significant difference among gender or age variations.

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Dhaliwal, R., Attri, I. ., Dhillon , S. S. ., Dev, K., Mehmi, N., & Attri, P. (2022). Public Awareness of Depression – An Informal Clinical Study . International Journal of Medical Science and Clinical Research Studies, 2(2), 82–85. https://doi.org/10.47191/ijmscrs/v2-i2-01
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