- LONDON (Reuters) - Britons
are the most depressed people in Europe, according to a new study.
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- Depression affects more women than men and is more common
in urban areas, according to findings published on Monday in the British
Journal of Psychiatry.
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- Scientists compared patients in Britain, Spain, Finland,
Norway and Ireland, looking at groups in busy cities and rural
villages.
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- "Depressive disorder is a highly prevalent condition
among working age adults in Europe," the report's authors, including
Professor Greg Wilkinson, of the University of Liverpool, said in the
report.
"Rural communities show a lower prevalence of depressive
episodes."
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- More than 14,000 people aged from 18 to 65 were randomly
selected to take part in the study, the first of its kind to cover
Europe.
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- Researchers chose Liverpool and Dublin as their UK and
Ireland urban research centres. The Vale of Clywd in Wales and the Irish
county of Laois were the rural test centres.
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- Researchers found that across Europe, 7.9 percent of
women and 5.2 percent of men suffered from depression.
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- The figures were much higher across the UK and Ireland,
particularly in towns and cities.
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- Some 21 percent of urban UK women were prone to
depression,
compared to only 4.7 percent in rural areas.
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- One in 10 men in UK cities suffered depression -- the
figure was halved among men in the country.
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- The study found Spain had the lowest levels of depression
with barely figures of barely two percent.
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- In Finland and Norway there was not much difference
between
rates of depression in town and country, with the figure hovering between
four percent and ten percent.
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