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CES Psicología

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AGUDELO MARTINEZ, Alejandra; ANTE CHAVES, Catherine  e  TORRES DE GALVIS, Yolanda. Personal and Social Factors Associated with Major Depression Disorder, Medellín (Colombia), 2012. CES Psicol [online]. 2017, vol.10, n.1, pp.21-34. ISSN 2011-3080.  https://doi.org/10.21615/cesp.10.1.2.

Introduction: mental disorders are one of the major health problems worldwide, more than 350 million people of all ages are facing major depressive disorder; this is being a common problem in the general population and its persistence and harshness of the symptoms affect personal and social aspects of an individual. Objective: Determining personal and social facts associated to the major depression disorder, in a population aged from 13 to 65 years old, in Medellin city, during 2011-2012 years. Materials and methods: It was analyzed the information obtained in the First Population Mental Health Survey representative of households for Medellin city, collected through interviews and conducted in cooperation with the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview. 4,176 records were taken. The information processing was performed using the SPSS software version 21.0 (License for use of CES University). Results: The prevalence for major depressive disorder in the city of Medellin in 2012 was 4.1 %. Women were 2.4 times more likely to be affected by major depressive disorder compared to men. Having a fair / poor perception of mental health represents a 6.0 higher risk than having a very good / excellent perception; Presenting an average degree of resilience would represents almost 2 times of the risk of having major depressive disorder compared to those with a high degree of resilience, and who are not able to relieve oneself with their family represents a risk of 1.9 times in comparison to those who can do it. Conclusions: personal factors associated with major depressive disorder include facts such as: being female, having fair or poor mental health perception, not exercising, having an average degree of resilience; while in terms of the social aspects, they were highlighted aspects related to family, as it is the case of not being heard and being demanded constantly by the family members.

Palavras-chave : Major Depressive; Adolescent; Adult; Resilience; Family; Health Perception.

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