Women's mental health: depression and anxiety

Nurs Clin North Am. 2009 Sep;44(3):355-64. doi: 10.1016/j.cnur.2009.06.002.

Abstract

Sex ratios for selected mental disorders such as major depressive disorder and anxiety disorder are much higher in women than men. Anxiety disorders constitute the most prevalent mental disorder in adults, and affect twice as many women as men. Depression and anxiety exist comorbidly and along with other mental disorders. This article focuses on depression and anxiety in women, and other conditions comorbid with depression or anxiety: cardiac disease, obesity, vitamin D deficiency, and irritable bowel syndrome.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Anxiety Disorders / diagnosis
  • Anxiety Disorders / epidemiology*
  • Anxiety Disorders / etiology
  • Anxiety Disorders / prevention & control*
  • Child
  • Comorbidity
  • Cost of Illness
  • Depressive Disorder / diagnosis
  • Depressive Disorder / epidemiology*
  • Depressive Disorder / etiology
  • Depressive Disorder / prevention & control*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Menopause / physiology
  • Menopause / psychology
  • Menstruation / physiology
  • Menstruation / psychology
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications / prevention & control
  • Prevalence
  • Risk Factors
  • Sex Characteristics
  • Sex Distribution
  • Sex Factors
  • United States / epidemiology
  • Women's Health*