Survey 1

To gain some initial idea of what people are aware of I have conducted a survey to gather this information anonymously. I have gone through surveymonkey.com in order to achieve fast results. From my results I can draw information which will hopefully enable be to narrow my approach.
The questions asked are featured below:

1. Are you a...

• Student
• Parent
• Teacher
• Other

2. How would you best describe depression?

3. What ago group do you think depression effects mostly?

• 0 - 10
• 11 - 25
• 26 - 40
• 40 +

4. Depression can appear for no particular reason.

• True
• False

5. Do you think enough is being done to make people aware of depression and the severity of it?

• Yes
• No

6. Depression is...

• An illness
• A weakness
• A phase that everyone goes through

7. According to results, what percentage of people find anti-depressants ineffective?

• 40%
• 50%
• 60%
• 70%

8. Do you think children get depressed?

• Yes
• No

9. Do you think depressed people should just snap out of it and get on with their lives?

• Yes
• No

10. What do you think should be done to make people more aware of this increasing problem?