Особенности депрессивных расстройств настроения у подростков

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare the clinical and dynamic characteristics of depression in adolescent boys and girls.Material and methods: сlinical psychopathological, clinical and follow-up clinical-psychological methods (using a «scale of common clinical impression» of CGI, scale and Beck depression for teenagers test Boyko to study the traits of excitability and colour test of relations [TSTO]) investigated depression in 145 adolescents (56 girls and 89 boys) aged 15-17 years, observed in regional PND.Results: adolescent depression represents heterogeneous disorders in the structure of affective illness, schizophrenic disorders circle, neurotic and stress related disorders, organic disorders and in the dynamics of emerging personality disorders. The nosological distribution of depression in adolescents depends on the gender: depressions in adolescent males were more frequently found in the dynamics of personality disorders, but the depressions in adolescents girls were in the framework of affective illness. There were gender differences of frequency of depressions of varying severity and duration. The severe depressions are relatively rare in adoles- cents. A phenomenological manifestation of endogenous depression was structurally similar to those seen in adults not depending on gender. Some differences in the clinical picture of depressive disorders between boys and girls were observed in subsyndromic, mild and moderate depressive episodes.Conclusions: there is a complex of factors involved in the formation of depression in adolescence, some of which may be due to age, others are common to the depression of adulthood.