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Michelle J. Hindin, PhD and Socorro Gultiano, PhD

Michelle J. Hindin is with the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md. Socorro Gultiano is with the Office of Population Studies and the Sociology-Anthropology Department, University of San Carlos, Cebu, the Philippines.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Michelle J. Hindin, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, 615 N Wolfe St, E4150, Baltimore, MD 21205 (e-mail: mhindin{at}jhsph.edu)

Objectives. We examined the association between 2 important public health problems in the developing world: parental domestic violence and depressive symptoms during adolescence.

Methods. Data on depressive symptoms and witnessing of domestic violence were obtained during private face-to-face interviews conducted in 2002 with 2051 Filipino adolescents 17–19 years of age.

Results. Symptoms of depression were common; 11% of young men and 19% of young women reported wishing that they were dead occasionally or most of the time, and nearly half of all respondents recalled parental domestic violence. Female adolescents had significantly higher scores than male adolescents on a 12-item index of depressive symptoms. Both male and female adolescents who had witnessed parental domestic violence reported more depressive symptoms.

Conclusions. Filipino adolescents who have witnessed parental domestic violence are significantly more likely to report depressive symptoms.

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