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Depression in children and young people
Background
Depression is an illness that affects people of all ages including children and young people.
It is thought that about one per cent of children and three per cent of teenagers are affected by depression.
The rate rises sharply at puberty. Before puberty, as many boys as girls are affected but after puberty twice as many girls are affected as boys. There is little good evidence about depression in children in various ethnic groups but is it thought that under the age of ten it is similar in all ethnic groups. However in teenagers it is thought that emotional problems, including depression, are much higher in the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities but this is not reflected in the black and Indian communities. There is evidence that adults who have depression first experienced this before the age of twenty years.
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