FdSc Report: Depression as a Major Concern in Mental Health

This report examines depression as a significant factor affecting mental health and well-being, particularly within health and social care settings. It explores the background of depression, its rationale, research aims, objectives, and questions, supported by a literature review. The research methodology employed is qualitative, utilizing secondary data collection and analysis to understand the dynamic reality of human behavior. The discussion highlights that depression can be treated through proper care, counseling, and social engagement. Recommendations emphasize the importance of treating individuals with depression with care and love, motivating them to connect socially. The conclusion underscores that depression significantly impacts mental health and requires comprehensive care and treatment for improved well-being. This document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a range of study tools and solved assignments for students.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Depression is one of the main factor which can impact the mental health of an individual.
Depression can cause due to many reasons either due to different types of disease or anxiety.
This can impact mental health but it can be treated when proper treatment, care and time-to-time
counseling are provided. An individual can overcome from depression and can improve their
mental health. Large population of the globe are facing this disorder and with the help of
healthcare professionals and family and friends can help those individual to overcome form
depression and live standard life.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
TITLE..............................................................................................................................................4
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................4
RATIONALE...................................................................................................................................4
RESEARCH AIM............................................................................................................................5
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE..............................................................................................................5
RESEARCH QUESTION................................................................................................................5
LITRATURE REVIEW...................................................................................................................5
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................7
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS......................................................................................7
DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................7
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

TITLE
Depression as a major concern in mental health and well-being.
BACKGROUND
Mental well-being refers to a state of well-being where every individual should realize their own
potential to cope with normal stresses of life and perform their activity and work productively
and make a contribution in the community. It is related with thought and feeling to cope with
everyday life. Depression refers to a mood disorder that can affect individuals daily life. It is the
feeling of anger, sadness, loss and can affect individual psychologically. Depression can impact
centre of CNS. Depression plays a major role to make an individual mentally ill. It is linked with
panic disorder and pain disorder, social phobia etc. These disorders are treatable and individual
can perform their normal productive life. Here, chosen disease is depression which can cause
mental illness and effect the mental well-being of an individual. The term depression was
appeared in 19 century which was related with mood disturbance. This is linked with mental
illness which can cause negative impact and affect a daily activity. It may be caused due to heart
disease Kidney Disease, diabetes or any chronic illness. This research is based on the mental
illness within mental health and social care setting which can provide data information and
knowledge related with depression and its effect on mental health. This research provides the
knowledge about interrelationship of depression on mental well-being in mental health and social
care setting (Schnyder, (2017)).
RATIONALE
Depression is one of the main reason that can create a negative impact on the daily
activity of individual. This can also impact individuals' mental well-being. In context to this,
there is need to provide proper treatment and care to the individual which can help to remove this
disorder and suppress this for better-improved health of individual. Mental health plays an
important role in individual life this provide satisfaction and allowed to live standard and quality
life. Depression plays a major role in effect in mental health of an individual which can be due to
either any disease or anxiety. Continuous thinking on one topic can also lead to create a
depression and can impact mental well-being. To overcome from depression, there is need to
socialize and follow the proper treatment. Healthcare professional need to deliver better care and
treatment to the individual who have the mental disorder due to depression. There is need to

deliver proper healthcare treatment for improvement in mental disorder and to reach mental well-
being. There are different health concern are related with depression which can impact individual
life (Liu, (2017)).
RESEARCH AIM
To analyze the cause and impact of depression on mental health and well-being.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVE
 To analyze the concept of depression in individual mental health.
 To evaluate the cause of depression in individual mental health.
 To examine the intervention to minimize depression and its impact on mental health.
RESEARCH QUESTION
 What is the concept of depression in individual mental health?
 What is the cause of depression in individual mental health?
 What is the intervention to minimize depression and its impact on mental health?
LITRATURE REVIEW
According to Steijn (2019), depression is a serious and common medical illness which
negatively impacted the feeling of individual the way of think and way to act. This disorder is
treatable. This is related with causing a feeling of loss of interest, sadness and leads to create
decrease in an emotional and physical problem. It also decrease the ability to perform different
activity either at work or home. This is the one that can directly impact the mental health of
individual and can create different problems. It also lead to create a depressed mood and loss of
pleasure to perform any activity. It also changes appetite and affect the sleeping cycle. It
increases fatigue and create loss of energy. Individuals feel guilty while suffering from
depression. Due to depression, individual is not able to make their decision according to their
thinking power. They continuously think about suicide or death which impact mental health of
individual and create mental disorder which should be treated by taking antidepressant
agent(Mahwati, (2017)). Healthcare professional need to deliver better treatment and care and
time-to-time counselling can help an individual to overcome from depression and perform
different activities on normal basis. Depression impact the mental health of individual and
decrease their ability to think and making decisions. This also impact the mental health and

individual is not able to think about themself and feel any type of positive energy within them.
Government has imposed different intervention program for minimizing depression between
large population. In context to this, family member and friends also need to perform their role by
making a better relationship with patient with depression and to motivate them for better quality
of life. They should also influence them to get social in life and meet with different people. This
can help to overcome from depression and provide quality of life.
According to Wang (2020), depression in psychology refers to emotional state which
have the feeling of guilt or self work and reduce the ability to enjoy life. Person with depression
usually experience a different type of symptoms like hopelessness, sadness, lower self-esteem,
loss of ability to perform ordinary activity, lower self-esteem, loss of appetite or chances of
insomnia. This all type of feeling and can create directly negative impact on the mental health of
the individual and the person is not able to perform the different activity and respond to anyone
about any activity. Individual with depression is not able to live a normal life with full of
enjoyment. Sometimes, they decide for suicide or that is normal feeling of individual with
depression. Due to this type of symptom, create negative impact of mental health and need to
better care and treatment. Health and social care setting professionals need to deliver better
treatment and care to the individual with depression for their improved health. Depression can
impact any individual of all ages, social, economic classes and races and can strike anytime to an
any individual. This type of condition can be found more than twice in any individual.
Depression is the major cause of mental ill health. In current time, due to pandemic and imposed
of lockdown, many individual has faced depression due to staying at same time and not
performing different activity in which they are interested (Gold, (2019)). Due to longer duration
of such conditions created mental depression to a large population which has infected large
population in all over the globe. There is also need for time to time counselling to ensuring about
an improvement in patient health. There is also need to making better relationships with society
and with other people. So that, meeting with new people and society can help to improve
depression and make them able to perform different activity and hope to live life in better way.
There are different intervention program has been imposed by the government that can help to
overcome from the depression. There is also need to motivate such type of efficient and making
social relationship that can help to promote better mental health and help to overcome from
depression.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Qualitative research refers to collect and analyse non-numerical data like audio, video,
text which can help to provide an understanding about the concept experience and opinion. This
is the methodology which is used the gathering in depth Insight for generate new idea. This is
generally used for understanding about the health sciences, education, sociology etc. This help to
understand about the experience of individual in this world. It should be flexible and focus on
providing effective information and interpreting data. This is the methodology which is used to
collect data through interviews and participant observation. Various common approaches can
able to provide a narrative research and related information for the research topic (Queirós,
(2017)). Quantitative method help to analyze and collect the numerical data which can provide
opinion and concept of individual and can provide numerical and statistical data with related
research. In this research, the qualitative method has been used by the researcher for collecting
and analyzing data to understand dynamic reality of the human behavior. Through qualitative
research method, it provide a high level of analysis, observation and interpretation that can help
in filtering through personal lens. It can provide better aspect of research.
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS
For the research, secondary data has been collected which has been analyse and interpret
to collect the correct information about the impact of depression on mental health. Secondary
data has been collected from different sources like books, internet, website, research article,
magazine and many authorized sources. These can provide valid information about the research
topic. Qualitative analysis method has been used for collecting information about the research
topic where question has been addressed by using quantitative technique like questionnaires,
interviews, attitude scaling. These are in the form of narratives and text which includes audio or
video representation. This analysis has been utilized to collect quality information about the
research topic. Collected data provide the information and knowledge about the concept and
cause of depression that lead to create a negative impact on mental health of any individual of
any age (Grace, (2020)).
DISCUSSION
It has been find that depression plays an important role to negatively impact mental
health of any individual but it can be treated. Proper treatment, time to time counselling and

proper care can help individual to overcome from depression. It also help to provide the
information related with a research question. In the finding it has been found that depression is
one of the major factor which can impact mental health of individual. For this, there is need to
provide proper care and treatment along with time to time counseling with psychiatrist that can
help to provide help in overcome from depression. It has also been found that proper care and
treatment along with making social relationship can reduce depression and help to overcome for
better and improved mental health. During data and information collection, there was some
difficulty and limitation which has been encountered. These difficulties and limitations were
validity, valid source of information, different research articles and many more (Alwash, (2019)).
RECOMMENDATION
It has been recommended that every individual need to treat with care and love to the
person with depression. This should influence and motivate them to connect with social life and
make better relationship which can help them to improve and overcome from depression. The
research has been conducted with the help of using secondary research which provide knowledge
and understanding about the depression causing mental ill health and provide information about
importance of mental well-being. Proper counselling and effective treatment can help to
overcome from depression and should be recommended to utilize these for improved health
(Team, (2018)).
CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it can be concluded that depression plays an important role in
mental health. This is the one which can impact mental health of any individual which need to be
improved and treated in well manner. It has been concluded that proper caring, medication and
counselling can help an individual to overcome from depression and influence them to live a
improved quality life. This research provide the opportunity to learn about concept and cause of
depression which can impact mental health of the individual. It also provide understanding and
knowledge about the importance of mental health for mental well-being. This research was to
provide information related with the concept and cause of depression along with intervention that
can help to minimize depression and improve mental health.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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