Investigating Broader Terms for Depression and Conducting Academic Inventory Surveys to Determine the Severity of Depression

Abstract

Depression considered as an affective disorder prevails among a majority of audiences we encounter around us. Despite the fact that it’s atypical and significant issue, numerous individuals don't have much of a clue regarding depression. It is important to classify the disorder at an early state so that proper treatment and medication can be availed to the patient. The purpose of the study is to investigate the thoughts of suicide among adolescents affected by depression. This paper intends in investigating the exceptionally broad terms of depression, particularly initiation of depression in teenagers, suicidal risks, and eventually in providing us a survey result of depression within the academics. The severity or extent of depression was quantified analyzing data from certain standard questionnaires as Beck Depression Inventory (BDI- II), Major Depression Inventory (MDI), and The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD-29). Briefly, a sample of 100 students (43 B-tech Final Year students, 40 M-tech Final Year students and 17 Ph.D. students) were chosen from NIT, Rourkela for the inventory and were asked to attempt all the three sets. The subject extracted was assigned certain scores and these eventually were used to complete the survey with solidity. It was thus concluded that