Based on the statement that despite increased public awareness and the development of effective antidepressant medications, depression continues to be regularly found at a constant prevalence, one would say that depression continues to be:
a. endemic
b. epidemic
c. epidemiological
d. experimental
A
Depression is endemic, meaning it is constantly or regularly found in the population. Epidemiology includes the study of such endemic diseases: their causes, their treatment, and their prevention and control.
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