Gender and symptoms of depression and anxiety among Kikuyu secondary school students in Kenya

Gender and depression: a study of severity and symptomatology of depressive disorders (ICD‐10) in general practice

“…By evaluation of the recent studies, two major methodological conditions were considered: the population under study and the diagnosis of depression. As regards the population under study, the samples in the studies mentioned were non‐clinical samples (6–14), clinical samples of patients with specific subtypes of depression (15–17) or clinical samples of hospitalized patients (18, 20). As regards the diagnosis of depression, the most recent diagnostic criteria were used in only one study (20) and the ICD‐10 criteria were not used in any of the studies.…”

“…Several recent studies have concerned gender differences in the symptomatology of depression (6–20). The studies were performed in either non‐clinical samples (6–14), in clinical samples of patients with certain subtypes of depression (15–17), or in clinical samples of hospitalized patients (18, 20).…”

“…The studies performed in non‐clinical samples (6–14) mainly found that women had higher number of symptoms or a more severe type of depression. The main findings of studies performed in clinical samples (15–19) were that the number of symptoms and severity of depression were similar for male and female patients.…”

Gender Differences in Severity, Symptomatology and Distribution of Melancholia in Major Depression

“…In both pooled and stratified samples, higher proportions of male than female patients suffered from melancholic depression. The fractional gender difference was 14% (95% CI [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] in the pooled sample, 11% (95% CI 2-20) in the in-patient group and 20% (95% CI 0-40) in the out-patient group. All 95% CIs reached the limit of 20% for clinical relevance.…”

“…Four [17,19,22,25] of the studies performed in nonclinical samples examined gender differences in the num- …”