ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Benjaporn Panyayoung

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Depression among visually-impaired children

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of The Psychiatric Association of Thailand, Vol. 47 No.1 January-March 2002. P. 48

รายละเอียด / Details:

Objective: To study depression among visually impaired children as well as factors contributing to the state of depression among the target group. Results: The participants' mean age was 14.58 years. Approximaately; four-fifths of the participants (81.4%) had congential blindness, and one-third (32.6%) had a family history of impairment.Of all the participants,close toa a quarter of them (22.2%) had experoenced depression.Female participants were more susceptible to depression than male participants. The factors which had been found to be correlated with included the parents' alcohol or substance abuse family members with a history of illegal offence,poor family relations,stress in the famiky,and sex.It is worth noting that 5.6% of the participants admitted that they had at some point entertained a suicidal thought.

Keywords: depression, children, visually-impaired, blindness, blind depress, depressive

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2002

Address: The Psychiatric Association of Thailand.

Code: 0000141

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-6985

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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