Abstract
Introduction and Background
Many people in the pediatric population are be brushed off and misdiagnosed when it comes to depression. I decided to research into pediatric depression and how the effects of their peers, parents, and exposure to violence correspond with depression and how it effects their daily life.
Purpose Statement
The purpose of this literature review is to systematically and critically appraise current literature to examine the associations between pediatric depression and sleep issues, exposure to violence, peer relationships, and parental criticism.
Literature Review
For this literature review I gathered a total of 5 articles which are included in this review. All the 5 articles are academic journals. These articles all come from CINAHL complete from the ETSU library database.
Findings
When the pediatric population is exposed to emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical abuse, physical neglect, peer victimization and peer fighting, they were reported to have significantly greater depressive symptoms and hopelessness than the pediatric population who did not experience as much violence and neglect (Benton et al. 2020). Children who had preschool-onset major depressive disorder, after receiving parent-child interactive therapy with a focus on emotional development were found to experience a significant reduction in insomnia, daytime fatigue, and total sleeping problems (Hoyniak et al., 2020). There was also a strong correlation that the more parental criticism an adolescence receives, the higher the risk for major depression there is (Nelemans et al., 2020). The CLPM model indicated that depressive symptoms increased the risk for subsequent peer rejection consistently and peer acceptance mainly before eighth grade (Yang et al., 2020). And in the patients who came to the ER with non-psychiatric complaints, after screening for depression many of their results indicated a moderately-severe depression score which presents a need for additional help from a mental health care provider (Arrojo and Hooshmand, 2021).
Conclusions
Overall, there is a strong correlation between pediatric depression and sleep issues, exposure to violence, peer relationships, and parental criticism. The studies proved that the more parental criticism a child received, the more depressive symptoms they faced, as well as the more sleeping issues they experienced. The data also proved that in adolescence the influence of peers is strong and peer relationships have heavy influence on the depressive symptoms shown by adolescence. When children are exposed to a ‘web of violence’ they are also more inclined to experience depression and many children try to internalize their mental health issues to please their parents. There needs to be more general education about pediatric depression and more implementations of mandatory screenings added to the EHR. For many of these studies, if they were to be performed again, they would benefit from more diversity as well as larger sample sizes. This would provide a more generalizable set of data that could be applied in more places.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:es-conf-1047 |
| Date | 14 April 2022 |
| Creators | Farkas, Emily |
| Publisher | Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University |
| Source Sets | East Tennessee State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Epsilon Sigma at-Large Research Conference |
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