Relación entre dependencia, valoración socio-familiar y la depresión en adulto mayor Consultorio 3. Centro de Salud Sauces III. Año 2021.

Abstract

Background: Depression is an illness that affects to a great extent the age group of 65 years and over, the factors that have been identified as most conducive to it are dependence, family and social value that manages. Methods: A study of relational level; of observational, cross-sectional, prospective and analytical type in the population of older adults of the Sauces 3 Health Center's office 3, to determine the relationship between depression and the degree of dependency, social and family assessment and socioeconomic level. Results: The predominant sociodemographic variables with 70.3% were of mixed race, female sex, the age group was 65 to 59 years of age. Schooling is higher with 44.6%, marital status, married, with 48.6% and retired occupation with 52.2%. The distribution of older adults according to family dependency and sex showed that the one that needs some help for both sexes is the one with the highest representation with 67.3%. The distribution of older adults according to depression and sex proved to be normal with a predominance of both sexes with 77.2%. There is no association between the dependency variable and depression. The socio-family variable with the depression variable have no association whatsoever. Conclusions: People who need some help have no relationship with depression due to the predominance of normal state in respondents. And that the majority of the respondents have an acceptable level of socio-family situation does not depend on the fact that the majority of the respondents have given normal results.