RESUMEN La investigación se planteó como problema general ¿Demostrará el Inventario clínico de Depresión de Beck parámetros significativos de precisión diagnóstica al distinguir entre pacientes adultos que presenten depresión de los que no lo presenten, al utilizar la Escala de Depresión de Zung como Estándar de oro? En sentido de que el próximo año la Depresión podría alcanzar el segundo lugar a nivel global como uno de los trastornos responsables de la carga de enfermedad y, además del riesgo exponencial para su crecimiento, es en el Perú un problema de salud pública, por lo que genera importantes costos para el estado, siendo su diagnóstico el componente para el que se aplica menor rigor científico a la hora de tomar decisiones en la práctica clínica. Se mantuvo el objetivo de Determinar si los parámetros de precisión diagnóstica (características operativas ...

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%), ...