Factores de riesgo que inciden en la depresión de los adolescentes

Abstract

Depression is one of the most common mental health illnesses worldwide. This article focuses on describing the incidence of risk factors in adolescent depression. The objective of this article is to identify the various risk factors that drastically influence the Colombian population, especially adolescents, to suffer from depression. This article addressed a descriptive review of various research related to depression. Therefore, a documentary-type descriptive methodology was necessary to carry out bibliographical analyzes of the different texts, scientific articles and data from national organizations. In the results, we can find risk factors associated with the family, social environment, educational environment, psychosocial and gender. For the conclusions of this review, it was possible to identify the most common risk factors that affect depression, such as: family problems, hostile social contexts, bullying, lack of social support, abuse of psychoactive substances, traumatic experiences in childhood, low self-esteem among others.