Bibliometric study on depression and suicide in children and adolescents, 2003-2014 period.

Abstract

Depression and suicide in our children and adolescents is a public health problem that concerns society as a whole, the projections of the World Health Organiza­ tion on mental health in the child population are not encouraging for it Whereas it is important to know the state of scientific production in this area and become a reference for further research, OBJECTIVE: To analyze the scientific production pu­ blished in depression and suicide in children and ado­ lescents from 2003 to 2014 through the bibliometric analysis of 94 major items accessed databases, in Spa­ nish. Our findings are that the issues are investigated adolescent depression (23.4%) followed by depression in children (21.2%), and Colombia (26.6%), Mexico (17.02%) and Spain (15.9%) who have most published scientific production begins to increase from 2012. METHOD: This research is applied­substantive type (63.9%), where stands the descriptive correlational de­ sign (22.4%) and the simple descriptive (16.4%). Sam­ ples are usually non­probabilistic intentional (65.7%) being  the  major  size  of  101  and  500  participants (40.3%) of them have been included men and women (95.5%), while teenagers investigated the secondary level ( 73%), 88% reported no socioeconomic status. Among the measuring instruments and questionnaires and psychometric scales (71%) tests are reported to be the children’s depression questionnaire used the CDS. Finally, over 84% of production is for multiple authorship.