Factores de riesgo de la depresión en estudiantes de primer semestre del programa de Psicología.

Abstract

The adolescence is the time when the majority of high school graduated pupils begin

a new challenge in their lives, such as the higher education, going to a university

turns into a great goal; therefore the aim of this investigation consists in identifying

risk factor's of the depression in the university young persons of the first semester of

the program of Psychology of the University of Pamplona. On the other hand the

type of implemented investigation was qualitative, descriptive and cross-sectional

design; having as main instruments applying focal group, semi structured interview

and not participant observation. From the application it was possible to identify the

wedges having employees and what their conditions of vulnerability are in the

middle; taking as precedent the previous information found during the interview,

focal group and observation made; which was evaluated through categories as

vulnerability factors, protection factors, activation factors and life project. From this

it was possible to identify that the persons who initiate career and come from other

cities, being far from their relatives, sentimental pair, networks of support and social

circle; they seem to be affected physical, social, emotional and cognitive level, and

as a result sees that there exists a transitory depression not bigger than three weeks,

in which they present the symptoms previously mentioned.