Depresión en adultos de 20 a 64 años y funcionamiento familiar. Comunidad San José. Centro de Salud Anidado de Daule. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: The presence of personal, family and social risk factors predispose the appearance of depression and alteration in family functioning, being the main cause worldwide disability, the figures in Ecuador 4.6 people, the occurrence of these cases It is not always communicated, which causes repercussions on family functioning. Materials and Methods: An observational, prospective, cross-sectional and descriptive study was carried out, whose processing was to collect information through a survey prepared by the author of sociodemographic characteristics, family composition, transitory, non-transitory crisis of depression with implementation of the Hamilton scale and family functioning through the FF-SIL in 120 adults aged 20 to 64 years in the San José Community. Daule health center nested. Results: The predominant population of 50 to 59 years old, female, of civil union, of primary education level, self-identify mestizo, within the transitory crises the presence of adolescent children, non-transitory crises, return home, abandonment, or illness, infidelity. It was identified that adults are within functional families and most do not present depression Conclusions: Adults are in the fifth decade of life, the composition and crisis of transient families: adolescent and non-transitory children abandonment, infidelity, return at home, loss of work, which determine the onset of the depressive state. The functional family predominates, followed by the moderately functional family. Less than half of the population studied is depressed, with mild depression predominating.