Proposal for an Educational Tool to Address the Educational Gap in Depressive Disorder

Task description:
Identify an area of specialisation in the health setting which interests you. Using research,
identify a gap in education which has an impact on outcomes. Write a proposal for an
education tool to help close this gap.
Criterion 1:
Identifies an area of specialty within the health setting 50 words 6%
Depressive disorder is characterized as a health issue with severe sadness and reduced
pleasure in activities. Depressive disorder generally occurs at the age group of 20, 30.
Within the primary care setting, 30 percent of the patients have reported to behaving
depressive symptoms. However, less than 10 percent have major depression (Ripke et al.
2013).
Criterion 2:
Relevant research of a high level is used to identify an educational gap within this
specialty area 300-400 words 15%
Major depression is considered to be a major mental disorder. The prevalence of
depression varies across countries and the variation is considerable. The people that
suffer from depression also have to cope with the public stigma and also with the
depressive disorder. it has been found that there are 5 different types of stigma and it
consists of discrimination, status loss, separation, stereotyping, labelling. While
discrimination and prejudice are the two most common stereotypes that are linked with
the depression. These stereotypes are attached because they represent individuals with
the type of depressive disorder which reduces the competency of a person to make
decision for themselves. Study carried out by Munizza et al. (2013), on the participants
and are asked about the causes of depression and the potential causes of depression. the
participants were presented with two different type of potential cause and it included the
biological and psychological causes. The biological causes included the genetic heredity,
physical illness and predisposition. While the psychological cause includes the
separation/divorce from spouse, traumatic event, and stress. Majority of the participant
have replied that according to them depression is a general consequence of traumatic
event and a stressful situation. While many respondents have said that depression is
linked with a specific life stressor. The stressors include the mourning for over a family
member or a friend, separation or divorce, and serious illness. Three questions were also
asked to the respondents regarding the awareness of depression, definition of
depression, and estimation of the number of people suffering from depression. The
results of the study showed that 98 percent of the respondents are aware of depression,
one third of the respondents were unable to detect depression in people suffering from
depression. While respondents have mentioned that depression is a commonplace illness
and a state of anxiety (excessive) (Munizza et al. 2013).
Coles, M.E., Ravid, A., Gibb, B., George-Denn, D., Bronstein, L.R. and McLeod, S., 2016.
Adolescent mental health literacy: Young people's knowledge of depression and social
anxiety disorder. Journal of Adolescent Health, 58(1), pp.57-62.
Evans-Lacko, S., Henderson, C. and Thornicroft, G., 2013. Public knowledge, attitudes and
behaviour regarding people with mental illness in England 2009-2012. The British Journal
of Psychiatry, 202(s55), pp.s51-s57.
Hadlaczky, G., Hökby, S., Mkrtchian, A., Carli, V. and Wasserman, D., 2014. Mental Health