Analysis of women s depression based on age

Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders. According to a national study of diseases and injuries in Iran, depression is the third health problem in the country. Beck Depression Inventory (21 questions form) was used in this study. The questionnaire was collected without name and secret and confidential. This section describes and analyzes the research data. The data of the present study included depression scores of women according to their age. In order to describe the research data, we used average and standard variance, and standard deviation analysis was used to analyze the data. One-way ANOVA was used to compare the mean depression scores of individuals by age. Considering the calculated ratio F, it was considered that the calculated F was not equal to (1.082) for the mean scores of depression in women.

Keywords:

Depression , Beck , variance , ANOVA , scores of depression