Lorna Bittencourt, Sharina D Person, Regina Celina Cruz, Isabel C Scarinci
Pictorial health warnings on cigarette packs and the impact on women
Revista de saude publica
symptoms people think constitute depression mental health literacy framework knowing depressions nine core symptoms per formal psychiatric diagnostic criteria thought help people identify seek help depression however commonsense model selfregulation suggests expansive beliefs symptoms constitute illness may maladaptive whereby viewing symptoms characterizing disorder predicts greater functional impairment collected data n 281 us adolescents experiencing elevated depression symptoms recruited via social media symptom beliefs assessed descriptively latent profile analysis test associations variables adolescents beliefs symptoms constitute depression varied widely 49 endorsed dsm5 depression symptoms characterizing disorder adolescents identified symptoms belonging depression severe depression symptoms p 004 reported hopelessness p 021 pessimistic permanence depression p 007 also likely rate medication potentially helpful p 001 findings simultaneously support challenge elements commonsense model mental health literacy framework future research mental health literacy may examine adolescents psychiatricallyaccurate understandings depression experience worse clinical outcomes likewise future research common sense model explore whether expansive depression symptom beliefs may adaptive well maladaptive