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Traditionally, deaf people have been excluded from general studies, indeed in spite of an increase in mental health services there had been little empirical research related to prevalence and distribution of disorders of psychiatric symptoms and disorders in the deaf population.
Studies of prevalence rates of depression in deaf adult populations searcher Participants Methods Results Leigh & colleagues (1989) In 62 female and 51 male normally hearing people and 51 female and 51 male deaf people attending the National Technical School for the Deaf (NTID).
815) Deaf college under graduates N=53 Elderly prelingually deaf persons N=45 Nine Deaf adults, two men and seven women, Ages ranged from 21–65 years 3 questions from the Symptom Checklist -5 (SCL-90) The Beck Depression Inventory –II (BDI-II) Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) 15 item version and Livingston’s Sleep Scale interview transcriptions(ASL) and researcher observations Even when controlled for gender and age, the risk of an individual experiencing mental distress was more than doubled for the deaf sample.
Landsberger and Diaz(2010) N= 30 comparison group=60 Archival data & reviewing diagnostic assessments Among these patients ten percent of the deaf and fifteen percent of the hearing sample had major depression and thirteen percent of the deaf and five percent of the hearing patients were diagnosed with other mood disorders.
Kvam and associates made a postal survey of symptoms of depression and anxiety in members of a voluntary register of "people who consider themselves deaf", and compared their scores with a large community sample of people without hearing loss.