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ejop-335	Abdel-Fattah, Moataz M.; Asal, Abdel-Rahman A.	Prevalence, symptomatology, and risk factors for depression among high school students in Saudi Arabia	2006		.htm	text/html	6219	284	56	Comparable findings have been reported by others; the 1986 study of Minnesota high school students revealed that 39 percent suffer from mild to severe depression and nine percent of high school students are severely depressed.19 The lifetime prevalence of major depression in adolescents and young adults (15—24 years of age) in the United States general population has been reported as 20.6% for females and 10.5% for males (Kessler et al., 1998).20 Cubis (1989) reported that Around 20 per cent of young people suffer from depressed mood, with up to 43 per cent reporting feeling sad for at least two weeks in the past year.21 Lewinsohn, Rohde et al (1998) found that approximately 28% of adolescents will have experienced a major depressive episode by age 19 (35% of young women and 19% of young men).22 Another epidemiological study has reported that up to 8.3% of adolescents in the US suffer from depression.5 An NIMH-sponsored study of 9 to 17-year-olds have estimated that the prevalence of any depression is more than 6% in a 6-month-period, with 4.9% having major depression.23 Also, epidemiological utility and characteristics of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) were examined in a sample of 304 non-clinical adolescents in Indian schools and revealed that 22.4% of school going girls and 12.8% of school going boys had depression of various grades.24 Rutter, (1986a), suggest a variety of explanations for increasing prevalence of depression at adolescence age and that increasing level may be genetically determined and these genes triggered at late childhood or adolescence.25 In accordance with Jimerson et al who indicated that single risk factors can rarely be conceived as resulting in depressive outcomes. The magnitude of child and adolescent depression is clearly a major mental health problem.5 There have been several efforts to improve the early detection of depression and to develop programs to prevent and treat it as soon as possible.8 This study was undertaken to find out prevalence and pattern of depression among secondary school students in Saudi Arabia as well as to clarify the degree to which stressful life events lead to depression.	cache/ejop-335.htm	txt/ejop-335.txt