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Acta Colombiana de Psicología

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LONDONO PEREZ, Constanza  and  GONZALEZ RODRIGUEZ, Manuel. PREVALENCE OF DEPRESSION AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS IN MEN. Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2016, vol.19, n.2, pp.330-344. ISSN 0123-9155.  https://doi.org/10.14718/ACP.2016.19.2.13.

This epidemiologic study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of depression, the suicide risk and the demographic and personal factors associated with depression severity in men. The non-randomized sample of participants was formed by 1525 Colombian men aged 18 to 83 years old, from 22 departments and different educational levels. The instruments used to evaluate the above factors were the Men's Depression Questionnaire (Alvarez and Londoño, 2012), the Anxiety Scale HADS (Zigmond y Snaith, 1983) and the IMAFE (Lara 1991), and in order to collect data about personal and socio-demographic factors, a registration card was used. Data were analyzed to calculate the prevalence, suicide risk and comorbidity with anxiety through the use of SPSS. It was concluded that the prevalence of depression and suicide risk in the population object of study is higher than the one identified in previous studies when a non- gender sensitive questionnaire was used.

Keywords : Depression; men; suicide risk; prevalence.

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