Get Screened In October, Depression Awareness Month
As part of Depression Awareness Month, Screening for Mental Health, the pioneer in large-scale screenings for the public, is providing insight into data from its online screening program. Those that selected single as their partnership status were most likely to score highest for consistency with depression symptoms.
Depression Screening Data
Over 700,000 screenings were taken in the past year through Screening for Mental Health's online screening program.
Over 200,000 depression screenings were taken, 86 percent of which were consistent with depression (47 percent highly consistent, 30 percent consistent)
83 percent of those who took the screenings were 25 years old or under
Those 18-24 and 85+ scored most highly consistent for symptoms of depression
Single people comprised 51 percent of the screenings
Depression Statistics
Major depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States. (NIMH)
According to the World Health Organization (WHO; 2010), major depression also carries the heaviest burden of disability among mental and behavioral disorders
Depression is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. for ages 15 to 44 (WHO)
Depression affects more than 15 million American adults, or about 6.7 percent of the U.S. population age 18 and older in a given year. (Archives of General Psychiatry)
50 percent of college students felt hopeless in the past year, and over 35 percent felt so depressed it was difficult to function (National College Health Assessment)
National Depression Screening Day
The annual campaign raises awareness for mood disorders, such as depression, and provides the public with free, anonymous mental health screenings at helpyourselfhelpothers.org.
