Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Corso di laurea in infermieristica - Sede di Modena
| Thesis Title | Increasing youth depression: nurse's role and skills |
|---|---|
| Name | Iaradjuli Tamara |
| Supervisor(s) | Bisi Antonella |
| Academic Year | 2016/17 |
| Thesis type | Non research thesis |
Abstract
The World Health Organization (2017) has highlighted how psychiatric illnesses are increasingly concerned with the health of the general population. In Italy, 4% of young people have an episode of depression lasting at least two weeks in one year; youth depression become chronic, affecting the quality of life of the afflicted person: it can lead to drug and alcohol abuse, low self-esteem, self-lesionism, and even suicide. In this age group, early signal recognition is not easy at all, it is difficult to establish when certain behaviors are physiological or pathological; is also the result of poor knowledge and an underestimation of risk among families.This paper highlights the need for a deeper understanding of depression-related problems to provide better assistance to those suffering from it. Attending a young person with a depression problem means helping him to overcome the course of the disease, not only with pharmacological treatment. Depression is the absence of movement (ablution, apathy), it is necessary to overcome this immobility with physical, mental exercise, seeking for challenges: it is necessary to intervene by modifying the lifestyle, also for the aim to prevent dangerous as frequent behaviours of psychoactive substance abuse, dysfunctional strategies for self-medication of thymic condition. In this area, and not only, is the central role of the nurse who, starting from her vocational training, supports the young man in dealing with the whole development of depression through listening, helping relationship, therapeutic education, teamwork, self-esteem and family involvement.