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Horizonte Médico (Lima)

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Abstract

TORRES MANTILLA, Juan Carlos  and  TORRES MANTILLA, José Diego. Factors associated with depressive disorder among Peruvian older adults. Horiz. Med. [online]. 2023, vol.23, n.3, e2220.  Epub Sep 13, 2023. ISSN 1727-558X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.24265/horizmed.2023.v23n3.05.

Objective:

To determine the prevalence and factors associated with depressive disorder among Peruvian older adults over 60 years of age.

Materials and methods:

An observational, analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted based on a secondary analysis of the 2019 Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud Familiar (ENDES National Demographic and Family Health Survey), administered at national level by Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática del Perú (INEI National Institute of Statistics and Informatics of Peru). The sample consisted of 4,174 older adults. The main variable was suffering from a depressive disorder (depressed/not depressed) and the independent variables were age, sex, educational level, wealth quintile (classified into five levels of wealth), area of residence (classified as urban/rural), geographic domain (classified as Lima Metropolitan Area, the rest of the coast, the highlands and the jungle), health coverage (classified as insured/uninsured), alcohol consumption (yes/no), smoking (yes/no) and presence of a disability (yes/no). Analyses of absolute and relative frequencies, differences in proportions and a multivariate analysis using generalized linear models (GLM) were performed.

Results:

The prevalence of depressive disorder and disability accounted for 13.18 % and 7.86 %, respectively. Older males were less likely to suffer from a depressive disorder (PRa = 0.602; 95 % CI: 0.513-0.706) than females, and the group over 85 years of age showed a higher risk than those from 60 to 74 years (PRa = 1.664; 95 % CI: 1.304-2.124). Besides, not presenting a disability behaved as a preventive factor (PRa = 0.542; 95 % CI: 0.440-0.668), while a higher educational level and wealth quintile, starting from the "Middle" quintile, were protective factors when taking the categories "No education" and "The poorest" as reference, respectively (p < 0.005).

Conclusions:

Belonging to the group over 85 years of age, being a female, being in lower wealth quintiles, suffering from a disability and having a lower educational level were risk factors for depressive disorder among Peruvians older adults.

Keywords : Depression; Aged; Mental Health; Public Health; Peru.

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