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Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana
versión impresa ISSN 1814-5469versión On-line ISSN 2308-0531
Resumen
PONCE-TORRES, Christian et al. Prevalence and factors associated with depressive symptomatology in older adults of the “Micaela Bastidas” Health Center, Lima-Peru. Rev. Fac. Med. Hum. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.2, pp.233-239. ISSN 1814-5469. http://dx.doi.org/10.25176/rfmh.v20i2.2881.
Objective:
To evaluate the factors associated with depressive symptomatology in older adults attending to “Micaela Bastidas” health center from Lima, Peru.
Methods:
Cross-sectional analytical study in adults over 60 in a marginal urban area from Lima. We evaluated the dependent variable using the geriatric depression scale of 15 items. We considered the presence of depressive symptomatology with a score ≥ 6. We calculated the factors associated with depressive symptomatology using raw and adjusted prevalence ratios with 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) using poisson regressions with robust variance.
Results:
Of the 142 older adults (age 70.4 ± 8.14 years old), the prevalence of the presence of depressive symptomatology was 55.6% (women: 39.6% and men: 53.4%). The lack of schooling (RPa: 1.40, 95% CI: 1.04 - 1.88) and not working (RPa: 1.50, 95% CI: 1.09 - 2.05) were risk factors that increased the prevalence of depressive symptomatology.
Conclusion:
The prevalence of presence of depressive symptomatology in older adults from a marginal urban area of Peru was high. Older adults who did not complete their schooling and did not work were more likely to develop depressive symptomatology.
Palabras clave : Depression; Old people; preventive health services (source: MeSH NLM)..