This study is to investigate the relationship between the burden of family care, sleep quality, depression, and anxiety in adolescent patients with depression, and to provide a basis for reducing family caregiving burden and improving sleep quality in adolescents with depression. A total of 169 adolescent patients with depression who visited the department of psychosomatic medicine in our hospital from April 2023 to June 2023 were selected. The patients were divided into mild depression and moderate to severe depression groups based on HAMD scores. The moderate to severe depression group was further divided into the moderate depression group (134 cases) and the severe depression group (7 cases). The Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS) were used to investigate the burden of family care, sleep, anxiety, and depression in adolescent patients. Non-parametric tests were used to compare the ZBI, PSQI, SAS, and SDS scores between the two groups. Spearman’s correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation between ZBI and SAS/SDS scores and between PSQI scores and SAS/SDS/ZBI scores in adolescent patients with depression. The total SAS, SDS, and PSQI scores of the mild depression group were significantly lower than those of the moderate to severe depression group, and the difference between the two groups was statistically significant (P<0.05). Comparing the moderate depression group with the severe depression group, there were statistically significant differences in SAS and PSQI scores (P<0.05), but no significant difference in SDS scores (P>0.05). Spearman’s correlation analysis showed that all PSQI items, except for sleep efficiency and daytime dysfunction, were significantly positively correlated with SAS, SDS, and ZBI scores in adolescent patients with depression (P<0.001). Adolescent patients with depression experience anxiety, depression, and sleep disorders. Anxiety is positively correlated with depression, the burden of family care, and sleep disorders. Therefore, the relationship between these factors should be given attention in the treatment of adolescent depression.

Wu Yuting, Hao Wanting, Fan Yunchao, Zhang Yao. A study on the correlation between family caregiver burden, anxiety, depression, and the sleep quality of adolescent depression patients. Academic Journal of Medicine & Health Sciences (2024), Vol. 5, Issue 9: 31-39. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJMHS.2024.050906.

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