Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Depression is among the most common mental health disorders. Substance use, especially, alcohol use is common in adolescence and it was found to have association with depression. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence and association of depression severity with substance use among school-going adolescents in Malaysia. METHODS: A secondary data analysis of the Malaysian National School-Based Health Survey 2012 was carried out. A total of 21,764 school-going adolescents between the ages of 12 to 18 participated in the study. Complex sample ordinal logistic regression was employed for analysing and quantifying the odds ratio, in which 95% confidence interval was achieved. RESULTS: This study discovered that the prevalence of mild, moderate and severe depression were 16.6%, 12.8% and 3.8% respectively. Multivariable analysis showed that those who smoked (OR: 1.30, 95%CI: 1.15, 1.46), drank alcohol (OR: 1.30, 95%CI: 1.14, 1.48) and used drug (OR: 1.81, 95%CI: 1.24, 2.65) were found to be more likely to experience severe depression. CONCLUSION: The exposure to substance usage should be taken into consideration while designing an intervention package to manage adolescents with depression.
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@proceedings{APCPH-2019-149,
title = {Depression Severity and Substance Use Among School-Going Adolescents in Malaysia},
author = {Norhafizah Sahril(Statistics) and Noor Ani Ahmad and Tahir Aris},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-07-22},
urldate = {2019-07-22},
journal = {6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Public Health 2019 Proceedings},
issue = {6},
abstract = {INTRODUCTION: Depression is among the most common mental health disorders. Substance use, especially, alcohol use is common in adolescence and it was found to have association with depression. The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence and association of depression severity with substance use among school-going adolescents in Malaysia. METHODS: A secondary data analysis of the Malaysian National School-Based Health Survey 2012 was carried out. A total of 21,764 school-going adolescents between the ages of 12 to 18 participated in the study. Complex sample ordinal logistic regression was employed for analysing and quantifying the odds ratio, in which 95% confidence interval was achieved. RESULTS: This study discovered that the prevalence of mild, moderate and severe depression were 16.6%, 12.8% and 3.8% respectively. Multivariable analysis showed that those who smoked (OR: 1.30, 95%CI: 1.15, 1.46), drank alcohol (OR: 1.30, 95%CI: 1.14, 1.48) and used drug (OR: 1.81, 95%CI: 1.24, 2.65) were found to be more likely to experience severe depression. CONCLUSION: The exposure to substance usage should be taken into consideration while designing an intervention package to manage adolescents with depression.},
note = {Type: POSTER PRESENTATION; Organisation: Institute for Public Health, Ministry of Health Malaysia, Malaysia},
keywords = {adolescent, Depression Severity, Ordinal Regression},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}