Objective: To identify the prevalence of depression in the elderly attended by the Family Health Strategy (FHS), and to identify the associated factors as well. Methods: transversal study with 151 elderly who live in the area registered in the FHS in Passo Fundo, RS. Data were collected through a structural questionnaire and Geriatric Depression Scale GDS-15. Results: 33.1% are male, aging predominantly from 60 to 69 years old, average schooling level 4.14 years of study (DP: 2.63), 8.2% are illiterate or semi-illiterate, 21.9% declared some depressive episode and 2.6% declared other psychiatric illness. There was association between depression and health perception, family lost, asthma, fracture occurrence, cardiac insufficiency, and arthritis (p < 0.01). Conclusions: the results showed that the prevalence of depression in the elderly in the studied FHS was of 21.2%, from which 17.9% were diagnosed with mild to moderate depression, and 3.3% with severe depression, who are in need of integral and multidisciplinary interventions aiming at the reduction of the associated factors and at the qualification of their lives.
OBJECTIVE:To asses how people with mental disorders experience their special needs and interact with the community in public urban places.
METHODOLOGY:The research was performed in the city of Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, using ethnography as the theoretical methodological approach. As of the study of one subject, the objective was to understand what characterizes people as mentally sick and how the adversities of their mental picture do not prevent them from building circuits, paths, and social networks with the urban space.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS:It was identifi ed the subjectivity processes of subjects in the spaces of the city. Since health services recognized these individuals, it is possible to create interventions which are more suitable to their special needs.
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