Risk Factors for Depression among Adolescents in Urban Kancheepuram District Area, Tamil Nadu Objectives

A Community based cross sectional descriptive study done in Anakaputhur, an Urban area of Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu. Depression among adolescent age groups has an effect on teen socialization, academic achievement, family relationships. They are at danger of gambling addiction, social media, electronic gadgets, smoking, alcohol, antisocial behaviour, and also psychosocial impairment. Suicide, the third major cause of death among elderly adolescents (Centre for Diseases Control, Atlanta), is the most disastrous result of adolescent depression. In India, more than six kids commit suicide every day due to failure of examinations in 2011.10 Thus, it can be seen that today’s adolescents are confronted with multiple types of physical, psychological and social issues.