Open AccessDepression in a household population sample in Aracaju (Sergipe, Brazil)
Author(s) -
Mariana Siqueira Menezes,
André Faro
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista interamericana de psicología/interamerican journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2329-4795
pISSN - 0034-9690
DOI - 10.30849/rip/ijp.v53i1.894
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , logistic regression , demography , beck depression inventory , population , sample (material) , medicine , psychology , gerontology , environmental health , psychiatry , sociology , anxiety , economics , macroeconomics , chemistry , chromatography
This study aimed to detect the prevalence of symptoms of depression in a representative household population sample from Aracaju (Sergipe, Brazil), as well as estimating the chances of positive diagnostic screening of depression, based on socio-demographic and general health profiles. The sample was composed of 690 participants. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and questionnaires about socio-demographic and health-related data were used. Almost 35% of participants had positive screening diagnosis of depression. The Logistic Regression showed that those people who perceived themselves as sick, non-religious, lacked a college degree, smokers or who were obese, smokers composed the profile of individuals with a greater chance to be in the BDI positive group. These findings are important due to the lack of similar studies in Brazilian Northeast region.