The High Prevalence of Depression in Climacteric Women and their Most Significant Complaints| Chapter 9 | Current Innovations in Disease and Health Research Vol. 5

 The basic purpose of this study search out observe the predominance of depression in climacteric women and their self-judgment of depression causes. Depression is delineated as a normal human fervor, a clinical syndrome and a group of syndromes or disturbances characterized by a awful or unpleasant concerning feelings and intuition state. The design of this cross-sectional study is asking descriptive. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) inquiry was administered to 48 climacteric wives (aged 45 to 65) fix by the Centers for Psycho and Social Attention (CAPS) of Specialized Mental Medicine in Sorocaba.Checking the mean and repetitiveness distribution, the climacteric girls presented a prevalence of 37.5% of moderate despair (BDIindex = 24.39 ± 3.13), and 47.92% of severe despair (BDIindex = 38.13 ± 6.78). Concerning the symptoms, Spearman rank order equating was found as the chief concerns, hierarchically: in- decision (r = 0.72, p < 0.001), depression (r = 0.66, p < 0.001), guilt (r = 0.63, p < 0.001), weeping (r = 0.62, p < 0.001), self-esteem (r = 0.60, p < 0.001), in- utility (r = 0.59, p < 0.001), self-critique (r = 0.58, p < 0.001) and loss of aggregation (r = 0.57, p < 0.001). In these CAPS climacteric women, the occurrence of depression was deduced quite extreme (86% ranging from temperate to severe), owing generally to hesitation, depression, guilt, cry, and self-esteem, attended by inutility, self-critique, and lack of attention.

Author(s) Details:

J. A. Figueira,
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil.

O. A. Figueira,
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

H. A. Figueira,
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A. A. Figueira,
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Brazil.

L. D. Figueiredo,
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

V. R. Varejao,
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A. P. A. Freitas Junior,
Universidade Evangélica de Goiás, Brazil.

J. L. dos Santos,
Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil.

 

G. Maranhao Neto,
Universidade Salgado de Oliveira, Brazil.

 

E. H. M. Dantas,
Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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