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Revista del Hospital Psiquiátrico de La Habana 2013; 10 (2)

Psychosocial factors related to depression on a group venezuelan women

Vázquez MA

Language: Spanish
References: 22
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: depression is a common disorder that has an affect on about 121 millions of persons in the world and its incidence is higher on women.
Objective: to establish the relationship between psychosocial factors and the presence of depression on a group of women.
Methods: forty-six depressed women and sixty-women without mental disorders that visited a communitarian medical office in the state of Bolívar, Venezuela were studied. Demographic variables, family history of mental disorders as well as present and vital early incidents that have an affect on them were studied. The statistical analysis was carried out by means of percentages, Odds Ratio and Chi test. For the depression diagnostic were used DSM IV criteria.
Results: there were no significant findings among depression and the variables age, scholar degree, occupation, marital status, and psychiatric disorder mental history ; nevertheless to have relatives suffering from neurotic disorders, drug abuse and suicidal behavior was consider as a risk factor to suffer from depression. The depressed women had significantly more post traumatic incidents during the childhood than the ones that do not suffer from depression and the most frequent incident was the family violence. Women that were exposed to one or more vital incidents during the last twelve months have eight times more risk to suffer from depression that the women that do not experience them. The most frequent divergences were with the family and the couple.
Conclusions: depression on women is related to traumatic experiences that take place during the childhood; these depressed women have more present negative vital incidents and look like to be more susceptible to the depresogenic effect of these incidents.


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