title: [Depression in adolescents and family functioning].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to determine the frequency of depression and family function in adolescents.
  
  
  METHODS
  252 students participated in the study, 134 males and 118 females; the average age was 16 years. The Birleson depression self-rating scale and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale III (FACES III) served to assess depression and family functionality.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the overall depression was 29.8%, although in young males was 18.7% and in young females was 42.4% (p < 0.05, OR = 3.2). The rigidly dispersed family was more frequently found in the group of adolescents with depression (p < 0.05, OR = 6.3). While in the group of adolescents without depression the most frequent were, the flexible agglutinated (p < 0.05; OR = 0.215), structurally agglutinated (p < 0.05, OR = 0.215) and rigidly agglutinated families (p < 0.05, OR = 0.106).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  this study showed that a significant percentage of adolescents suffer depression. This finding should prompt to further actions to detect adolescents' depression in primary care settings to provide timely care and to avert its severe consequences such as suicide, drug and alcohol use.
authors: Unidad de Medicina Familiar (UMF) 53, León, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Guanajuato, Mexico. leyvajimenez@msn.com
authors: Rafael
authors: R
authors: Leyva-Jiménez
authors: Ana María
authors: AM
authors: Hernández-Juárez
authors: Gabriela
authors: G
authors: Nava-Jiménez
authors: Verónica
authors: V
authors: López-Gaona
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies