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- Title
Prevalence of depression and depressive symptoms among bilingual female population of baku, azerbaijan.
- Authors
Mammadzada, G.; Mammadova, F.; Hajiyeva, A.; Aichberger, M.; Heinz, A.
- Abstract
Introduction: Although the prevalence of depression and depressive disorders had been widely investigated in many countries, up to date no such studies has been conducted in Azerbaijan. Objectives: The objective of this study was to study the prevalence of depression among female population in Baku city - the capital of Azerbaijan. Methods: The objects of the study were women from 18 to 65 years, residing in Baku who gave their informed consent to participate. The list of potential participants and their addresses were requested from Central Statistical Committee and further randomized using the computer program. The study was conducted using the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS). The raw scores were calculated and then converted to index scores, which were used to assess the patients' condition as "not depressed", "mildly depressed", "moderately depressed" and "severely depressed". The analysis was conducted using the SPSS 25.0. Results: Total of 1500 women, mean age 34.5 years (SD 12.5) participated in the study. The prevalence of depression was 49.6% with clinically significant cases representing 23.6% of them. The prevalence of depression was statistically significantly higher among Azerbaijani-speaking women compared to Russianspeaking. Monolingual women had statistically significantly higher scores on depression than women who knew two or more languages. Interestingly, there was no significant difference between women who knew only two languages as compared to women who spoke three or more languages. Conclusions: It is intended to further investigate depression prevalence among women residing in other cities of Azerbaijan.
- Subjects
AZERBAIJAN; BAKU (Azerbaijan); MENTAL depression; DEPRESSION in women; COMPUTER software; ANXIETY disorders; SELF-evaluation; FEMALES; LANGUAGE ability
- Publication
European Psychiatry, 2020, Vol 63, pS278
- ISSN
0924-9338
- Publication type
Article