Title:Depression and Its Impact on Various Aspects of Life - A
Narrative Review
Volume: 20
Issue: 2
Author(s): Ridwan Balatif*Alshafiera Azayyana Mawadhani Sukma
Affiliation:
- Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia
Keywords:
Depression, depression impact, epidemiology, mental disorders, prevention, psychiatric disorders.
Abstract: Depression is a mental disorder that affects 279 million people. Patients with depression
will not only have an impact on themselves but can also have an impact on others.
Provide an overview of the impact of depression on health workers, workers, students and patients,
as well as the prevention of depression. Data on the impact of depression and its
prevention using the Google Scholar and Pubmed search engine. Depression in healthcare
workers can affect the occurrence of misdiagnosis of a patient's disease, reduce the quality of
service, and increase the risk of suicide. Depression in other workers can result in lost
productivity and income, absenteeism, presenteeism, and accidents in the workplace.
Depression in students causes decreased student achievement, difficulties concentrating and
social interactions, and absenteeism. In patients with physical illness, depression can increase
the risk of mortality, re-hospitalization, higher costs, poor treatment adherence, and lost followup.
Depression prevention can help lower the risk of depression by up to 21%. This prevention
must be done as early as possible and starts from the scope of prevention at the family level.
Then this prevention can be done individually, especially for those with a high risk of
experiencing depression. The last prevention is universal prevention (population) which can be
started by educating the community. Depression can happen to anyone and will have a
detrimental impact on themselves and others. Prevention of depression should be done as early
as possible to prevent the impacts of depression.
