CAFS IRP - Depression in youth
Patrick burgess
IRP
Depression and its affects of youth Table of contents
Abstract: 5
Acknowledgements: 7
Introduction: 8
Depression is a psychiatric disorder characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, loss of appetite, feelings of extreme sadness, guilt, helplessness and hopelessness, and thoughts of death experienced by an individual for over two weeks and it affects the following needs listed in the Groups in Context unit. 8
Methods of data collection: 13
Results 15
For my third question “Do you know what depression is?” the vast majority (17 out of 20) of my respondents claimed to know what depression was, however, in my fourth question where respondents were asked to define depression, only 6 had a correct definition, this tells me that the term is over used because people do not know what they are referring to and often think that depression is not a very serious disease, most respondents thought it was simply feeling upset. 17 17
100% of the respondents of my survey believed that depression was a disease that existed in society and 13 out of 17 said they thought that the term was over used. 17
I included some answers that were not correct in this question to see if respondents were just ticking all of the boxes without paying attention to what was written, and I found that some participants were just ticking all the boxes, but was surprised to find that mostly respondents ticked only some of the boxes, however a lot of respondents ticked incorrect symptoms, I think that this is because a lot of respondents were not actually sure of the symptoms so they just assumed that all of the symptoms listed were correct. 19
This question showed me that a large amount of people did believe that it was on the increase, but a lot of those respondents proved to have little knowledge on what depression was, so therefore I cannot use this information to conclude to whether depression is or is not on the increase. 20
I also added a
IRP
Depression and its affects of youth Table of contents
Abstract: 5
Acknowledgements: 7
Introduction: 8
Depression is a psychiatric disorder characterized by an inability to concentrate, insomnia, loss of appetite, feelings of extreme sadness, guilt, helplessness and hopelessness, and thoughts of death experienced by an individual for over two weeks and it affects the following needs listed in the Groups in Context unit. 8
Methods of data collection: 13
Results 15
For my third question “Do you know what depression is?” the vast majority (17 out of 20) of my respondents claimed to know what depression was, however, in my fourth question where respondents were asked to define depression, only 6 had a correct definition, this tells me that the term is over used because people do not know what they are referring to and often think that depression is not a very serious disease, most respondents thought it was simply feeling upset. 17 17
100% of the respondents of my survey believed that depression was a disease that existed in society and 13 out of 17 said they thought that the term was over used. 17
I included some answers that were not correct in this question to see if respondents were just ticking all of the boxes without paying attention to what was written, and I found that some participants were just ticking all the boxes, but was surprised to find that mostly respondents ticked only some of the boxes, however a lot of respondents ticked incorrect symptoms, I think that this is because a lot of respondents were not actually sure of the symptoms so they just assumed that all of the symptoms listed were correct. 19
This question showed me that a large amount of people did believe that it was on the increase, but a lot of those respondents proved to have little knowledge on what depression was, so therefore I cannot use this information to conclude to whether depression is or is not on the increase. 20
I also added a