Sintomas depressivos e fatores associados em idosos institucionalizados da Região Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The number of institutionalized elderly people is growing more and more in Brazil and institutionalization is one of the main causes of depression in the elderly, consequently entails a negative health self-perception, which has a direct impact. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to identify the presence of depressive symptoms and its association with self - perception of health in institutionalized elderly people of Long - Term Care Institutions for the Elderly (ILPI) of the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was institutionalized by screening by the Mental State Mini Exam. The variables were sociodemographic, depression (GDS15) and self-perception of health. The descriptive statistical analysis through measures of central tendency and dispersion was performed to characterize the sample. Parallel between asometric wasometric analysis of simple multinomial regression. In all tests, the alpha value of 0.05 was considered. RESULTS: It took 127 elderly people living in 47 ILPI. The mean age of the patients evaluated was 74.9 ± 8.8 years. Depressive symptoms, 32.3% of mild symptoms and 13.4% of severe acute. Regarding self-perception of health, 46.5% considered it to be bad / very poor. The analysis of the association between depressive symptoms and graves and self-determination of health may be statistical significance (p = 0.004) and (p = 0.001) respectively. CONCLUSION: the results of this study were an attention that should be directed to the care of the symptoms of depression and its impacts on the negative autonomy of health.