Depression and suicide in our children and adolescents is a public health problem that concerns society as a whole, the projections of the World Health Organiza­ tion on mental health in the child population are not encouraging for it Whereas it is important to know the state of scientific production in this area and become a reference for further research, OBJECTIVE: To analyze the scientific production pu­ blished in depression and suicide in children and ado­ lescents from 2003 to 2014 through the bibliometric analysis of 94 major items accessed databases, in Spa­ nish. Our findings are that the issues are investigated adolescent depression (23.4%) followed by depression in children (21.2%), and Colombia (26.6%), Mexico (17.02%) and Spain (15.9%) who have most published scientific production begins to increase from 2012. METHOD: This research is applied­substantive type (63.9%), ...

Depression and suicide in our children and adolescents is a public health problem that concerns society as a whole, the projections of the World Health Organiza­ tion on mental health in the child population are not encouraging for it Whereas it is important to know the state of scientific production in this area and become a reference for further research, OBJECTIVE: To analyze the scientific production pu­ blished in depression and suicide in children and ado­ lescents from 2003 to 2014 through the bibliometric analysis of 94 major items accessed databases, in Spa­ nish. Our findings are that the issues are investigated adolescent depression (23.4%) followed by depression in children (21.2%), and Colombia (26.6%), Mexico (17.02%) and Spain (15.9%) who have most published scientific production begins to increase from 2012. METHOD: This research is applied­substantive type (63.9%), ...