Depresión en Adultos Mayores institucionalizados y no institucionalizados, Arboledas-Norte de Santander.

Abstract

The present research work took as a starting point the professional interest in studying mental disorders, particularly, to identify the levels of prevalence of depression in the institutionalized and non-institutionalized elderly population in the municipality of Arboledas. Thus, it was proposed to address this phenomenon by means of a comparative methodological construct with a quantitative approach and a descriptive-cross-sectional non-experimental design, which included the administration of a sociodemographic characterization form and the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) to 20 older adults. Thus, it was obtained that the general population has a prevalence of 5% in severe depressive symptomatology, 15% in moderate depressive symptomatology and 25% in mild depressive symptomatology, while the remaining 55% do not have depressive symptomatology. Finally, the study determined that there is a prevalence of depression in both groups, detecting comparatively that the non-institutionalized group presents greater depressive symptomatology, as well as more severe cases.