Nursing interventions in prevention of teenagers’ depression

Abstract

Depression is a common mental illness, which will have a negative impact on people's feelings, ways of thinking and behavior.There are about 322 million people of different ages in the world suffering from depression, accounting for more than 4% of the global population,especially in adolescence. The other main factors in this study are the impact of depression on teenagers and how to carry out nursing intervention for them.This study aimed to find methods to prevent teenage depression. The purposes of this study were to supply nurses with up-todate methods for preventing teenage depression. Research question was:How can nurses prevent teenage depression? The study was implemented as a literature review,the data for the literature review were collected using two databases: Cinahl and Medline.Overall, eight articles were chosen to be reviewed. Content analysis was applied in the analysis of the data.The results were divided into three categories: support, counselling and cooperation. Nurses play the role of educating the public to recognize teenager depression, providing clinical examination for teenagers; providing one-to-one or group counseling in a timely manner; in special circumstances, for example, providing special guidance for pregnant teenagers; and cooperating with other social organizations such as the media to help teenagers.