Factores Psicosociales asociados a la presencia de sintomatología depresiva en mujeres madres de 18 a 25 años.

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization WHO (2021), depression is the result of complex interactions between social, psychological and biological factors, affecting women to a greater extent, presenting age as a risk factor, with a higher incidence in the stage of pregnancy; Maternity being a stressful event that can lead to mental health problems, accordingly the research question arises: What psychosocial factors are related to depressive symptoms in mothers? For this, the objective is to know the psychosocial factors associated with depressive symptoms in women mothers from eighteen to twenty-five years of age through a qualitative study that promotes the healthy exercise of motherhood, with a population of women between the ages of eighteen to twenty-five selected from a convenience sampling, using an initial filter as the first phase to corroborate the depressive symptoms in the selected participants and in a second phase to apply the techniques: semi-structured interview, life history and participant observation exploring the different categories: depression, factor family, affective, social and maternity, finding the family factor as predominant in the presence of it, the social factor is the least relevant being the primary maternity process and sharing with your family, likewise there are risk factors such as a history of depression and violence direct and indirect intrafamilial ance, maternity is also evidenced as a protective factor that mitigates the risks of worsening symptoms.