Trastornos mentales en adultos con discapacidad auditiva.

Abstract

Over the years humanity has been immersed in multiple evolutionary changes that significantly affect mental health, where mental disorders mix a repercussion in any environment that integrates the human being from his onset, without being an unusual exception the population with hearing impairment, where the interest arises to address the reciprocal reaction that encompasses its psychopathology; that is why the central idea of identifying the index of mental disorders in adults with hearing impairment is established; this research presents a quantitative approach, because the self-assessment of DSM-5 Level 1 Cross-Sectional Symptom Measurement was applied in data collection: adult, has a nonexperimental design of descriptive cross-section, because it allows the analysis and collection of data at a single time, the scope of the research is descriptive, the population used is that of hearing impaired adults in the municipalities of Arauquita-Arauca and Loma-Cesar, as shown by 16 adults between the ages of 18 and 45 years, with 8 and 8 of both localities; established by convenience sampling from the census method. As results of this study, there is notable evidence in the presence of high symptoms in the population of the municipality of Arauquita-Arauca, with higher indices in the domains established in the instrument. This implies that there is less presence of mental disorders in the population of the municipality of Loma-Cesar.