Prevalence of depressive symptoms among pregnant adolescents

Abstract

Objetivo: verificar sintomas depressivos em gestantes adolescentes em unidade básica de saúde. Métodos: Cinquenta e cinco adolescentes grávidas foram entrevistadas na unidade de saúde. Para a coleta de dados, foram utilizados dois instrumentos: um para dados sociais, demográficos, obstétricos, relações familiares e eventos de violência, e outro para avaliar os sintomas depressivos - Inventário de Depressão de Beck. Resultados: 10,9% das entrevistadas tinham história prévia de depressão ou ansiedade e 3,6% apresentavam um desses problemas no momento da entrevista. 63,6% das adolescentes relataram ter sofrido algum evento estressante no último ano. 49,1% das adolescentes grávidas apresentam sintomas depressivos variando entre leve, moderado e grave. Conclusões: é essencial identificar os primeiros sintomas depressivos em gestantes, para que elas sejam encaminhadas ao serviço especializado, ou detectar a presença de uma equipe de saúde mental em um centro de saúde, para prestar um tratamento adequado e um cuidado de qualidade e humanizado.

Depression, Emotional Health and Technologies in Adolescents

“…The results obtained by Masselink et al (2018) showed that low self-esteem may make early adolescents more vulnerable to develop depressive symptoms in late adolescence and early adulthood, whereas young adolescents who experience low self-esteem are certainly not predisposed to experience depressive symptoms during development into adulthood. Research on depressive symptoms in adolescents is relevant to the extent that they can propose effective prevention, early detection, assessment, and intervention alternatives for the management of such a clinical condition in an age group that has been shown to be vulnerable to it (Costa et al 2018).…”

“…Adolescence is the transition period between childhood and adulthood characterized by the need for social integration, the search for self-affirmation and individual independence, in addition, to the consolidation of sexual identity and conflicting emotions (Costa et al, 2018). Adolescence is a stage of instabilities and physical, socio-affective and behavioral changes, highlighted by an emotional responsiveness to stress and an increase in the so-called exploratory behaviors, which enhances the development of the individual, but can cause psychological problems if exceeded (Bermúdez, 2017).…”

“…Likewise, a study presented by WHO (2016) that collects the reports presented on depression, typified as a cause of mental disability in the world whose prognosis will be for the year 2030; in addition, it is found that depression reached the second position in the ranking of major diseases in 2020, affecting about 121 million people in the world, regardless of race or sex (Costa, Souza, Sant'Anna, Fagundes, Terra & Veloso, 2018). According to Dickerson, Feeny, Clarke, MacMillan & Lynch (2018); Larios, Laborde, Sanchez, Gaviria & Lastre (2017) mentioned that depression is a debilitating disorder that affects almost one in five young people during the adolescent stage and negatively influences many areas of people's lives.…”