Prevalence of depression in Chinese children and adolescents:a Meta-analysis.

LI Jiu-ling; CHEN Xing; ZHAO Chun-hua; XU Yong

doi:10.11852/zgetbjzz2016-24-03-22

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Chinese Journal of Child Health Care ›› 2016, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (3) : 295-298. DOI: 10.11852/zgetbjzz2016-24-03-22

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Prevalence of depression in Chinese children and adolescents:a Meta-analysis.

LI Jiu-ling,CHEN Xing,ZHAO Chun-hua,XU Yong.

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Objective To estimate the prevalence of depression among children and adolescents in China. Methods Publications between 2000 and 2014 were extracted from China National Knowledge Infrastructure(CNKI),Wanfang Databases and Chinese Science and Technology Journal Databases(VIP) and Chinese Biomedical Database(CBM).Observational studies on prevalence of depression were included.The prevalence of depression was combined by meta-analysis.Subgroup analysis was undertook by gender and region. Results A total of 14 papers were included in this study.The total number of participants investigated was 72 402,with 12 318 depression cases identified.It was considered that the homogeneity of the references were moderate after testing of heterogeneity(I²=49.6%).The model of the meta-analysis had statistical significance (q=0.999,P=0.000).The pooled prevalence was 15.4%(P=0.000) and the 95% confidence interval was from 13.3% to 17.8%.Subgroup analysis shows that the prevalence of boys(16.8%) was higher than the girls(15.6%);the prevalence of rural (20.0%)was higher than the city (16.2%)and the prevalence of senior school (23.3%)is higher than the junior school (16.2%)student. Conclusion The prevalence of depression is higher in senior high school,we should be early screening and take some related intervention.

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child / adolescent / depression / prevalence rate / Meta-analysis

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LI Jiu-ling,CHEN Xing,ZHAO Chun-hua,XU Yong. Prevalence of depression in Chinese children and adolescents:a Meta-analysis.[J]. Chinese Journal of Child Health Care. 2016, 24(3): 295-298 https://doi.org/10.11852/zgetbjzz2016-24-03-22

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