Depresión y abandono familiar del adulto mayor. Consultorios de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria del Centro de Salud Primavera 2. Año 2021

Abstract

Background: Depression is a disorder where feelings of sadness interfere in daily life, added to the abadón that some older people may present, they would affect well-being at a personal, family and social level. Methods: the research is observational, retrospective, and cross- sectional, it included 103 people selected by a non-probalistic sampling with the objective of associating depression and abandonment in older adults in the Family and Community Medicine offices of the Primavera dos Health Center in the 2021. Prior authorization from the bioethical committee of the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil and complying with the Helsinki principles, the study is carried out. The variables used were age, sex, ethnicity, education, marital status, income, depression, abandonment, fulfilling inclusion and exclusion criteria, prior to informed consent, the survey was carried out, the resultswere entered in an Excel matrix and the statistic SPSS 20.0, Chi squarewas used with a P value of 0.05, tables and graphs were used for the results. Results: in the research, the female sex predominated, the group from 75 to 79, finished primary schooling, mixed ethnicity, free union, housewife, depression predominated mild and established 56.3%, the degree of abandonment predominated the degree average dropout 67%,the statistics showed a very significant relationship with a value of p 0.000between depression and dropout. Conclusions: in family and community medicine clinics, patients with abandonment found a degree of depression.