427101

Social Problem Solving among Depressed Patients

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Last updated: 11 May 2025

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Psychiatric and mental health nursing

Abstract

Background: Depression is a common psychiatric disorder associated with marked suffering, morbidity, mortality, and cost. The World Health Organization projects that by 2030, major depression will be the leading cause of disease burden worldwide (Dwyer et al., 2020). Aim: Assess social problem solving among depressed patients. Subjects and Method: The study was carried out using a descriptive research design on a convenience sample of 65 patients diagnosed with depression at the Inpatient and Out-patient Psychiatric Department of Mansoura University Hospital. The two tools used were sociodemographic and Social Problem-Solving Inventory. Results: Result of the current study revealed that 55.4% of the total sample was at the age group between 30-45 years, 61.5% of the patients in the present study were female and 78.5% have insufficient income, 67.7% of sample are from rural area and 66.4% of sample are single. Total score of social problem-solving more than three quarter (80%) of patients demonstrate poor social problem solving. Conclusion: depressed patient has poor social problem-solving ability; so, it is recommended to improve social problem solving while caring for patients with depression.

DOI

10.21608/mnj.2024.265769.1378

Keywords

Social Problem Solving, depression, Clinical data

Authors

First Name

Nahed

Last Name

Ali abd elshakour

MiddleName

Maher

Affiliation

Psychiatric mental health department . Faculty of nursing

Email

nahed.maher.901@gmail.com

City

Damietta

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First Name

Rania

Last Name

Eletrby

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Affiliation

Mansoura University- Faculty of Nursing

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First Name

Mona

Last Name

El-Bilsha

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Affiliation

Mansoura University- Faculty of Nursing

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Volume

11

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

55633

Issue Date

2024-01-01

Receive Date

2024-01-28

Publish Date

2024-05-01

Print ISSN

2735-4121

Online ISSN

2735-413X

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427,101

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Original Article

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1,468

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Publication Title

Mansoura Nursing Journal

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https://mnj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Social Problem Solving among Depressed Patients

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11 May 2025