Nonetheless, the consistent highly significant association between negative rating of subjective well-being and depression reported by several researchers [ 35 , 53 ] and ours, supports us to propose the determination of subjective health status as a proxy screening measure by peripheral community-based health workers in resource-constrained local settings such as ours, where mental health professionals are scarce; wherein the screen positives may further be referred for formal screening of depression and its management.
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