ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Adolescent and Young Adult Psychiatry
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1622027
This article is part of the Research TopicYouth Mental Health, Particularly in Asian PopulationsView all 83 articles
Serum ferritin and iron deficiency in adolescent schoolchildren with depression in northern Sudan: unmatched case-control study
Provisionally accepted
- 1College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
- 2Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia
- 3Khartoum Univeristy, Khartoum, Sudan
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Background: The direction of the association between depression and serum ferritin among adolescents needs to be explored further. There is no data on the association between serum ferritin and depression in Sudan. Therefore, the current study aimed to compare serum ferritin and iron deficiency between adolescents with depression and healthy controls in northern Sudan.Methods: An unmatched case-control study was conducted among adolescent school children in River Nile State, Sudan. The cases were adolescents with depression (n = 61), and an equal number of healthy adolescents were controls. The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) was used to assess depression. Multivariate regression analysis was performed.The median serum ferritin level (6.
Keywords: Depression, Serum ferritin, adolescents, age, female, iron deficiency
Received: 02 May 2025; Accepted: 24 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence: Hatim Y Alharbi, College of Medicine, Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia
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