Depresión en el adulto mayor y factores asociados. Consultorio Nº 5. Centro de Salud Nº 4. Guayaquil, 2021.

Abstract

Background: Increasing life expectancy globally must be closely related to the certainty of an adequate quality of life. Chronic diseases and the social environment of which it is part are some of the factors that intervene in their quality of life. In Ecuador dementia and depression have a high prevalence in the elderly, it was 39% according to the SABE survey. Methods: The research design used is prospective, observational, analytical and based on a case-control study. The tools used are the medical records and a questionnaire will be applied which includes the Family APGAR, the Yesavage Geriatric Rating Scale for Depression, and the WOOQOL BREF Quality of Life Assessment. Results: The results of the Yesavage geriatric scale, where it was shown that 33.6% of our population does not have depression, 50% have probable depression and only 16.4% have stable depression. The results of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire applied to the elderly population shows that 39.1% of the population studied has a low quality of life, 37.3% answered that it was medium and only 23.6% considered their quality of life good. quality of life. Family Apgar results in the older adult population sample, where 51.8% present mild dysfunction, 37.2% are functional, and 5.5% present moderate and severe dysfunction. There is a scientific association between depression and quality of life with a value of X2 = 32.206 and p = 0.000. There is also a scientific association between depression and family functionality with a value of X2 = 52.902 and p = 0.000.