Prevalencia de trastornos mentales en relación con violencia, resiliencia y estrategias de afrontamiento en Yoro, Choluteca y Cortés, junio, 2016

Abstract

Se estudió la prevalencia de trastornos mentales en relación con experiencias traumáticas por violencia, resiliencia y estrategias de afrontamiento, en adultos del departamento de Yoro, Choluteca y Cortés respectivamente. Se utilizaron cuatro instrumentos: SRQ que permitió hacer un tamizaje de posibles trastornos mentales, el Inventario de Experiencias Traumáticas del Cuestionario de Harvard que evalúa 16 tipos de traumas, Escala de Resiliencia Connor y Davidson (CD-RISC) que evalúa el nivel de resiliencia y cuestionario de afrontamiento del estrés (CAE), que mide estrategias de afrontamiento. La muestra poblacional fue de 300 adultos por cada departamento: 150 zona urbana y 150 zona rural, para Yoro y Choluteca; y 299 de la zona urbana del municipio de San Pedro Sula, Cortés. Los resultados indicaron que la prevalencia de sintomatología de trastornos mentales fue del 63% en Yoro, 62% en Choluteca y 74% en Cortés.En relación a las variables sociodemográficas, la mujer, población entre 18 a 30 años de edad y el área urbana son las más vulnerables de ser afectadas, determinado por una serie de factores psicosociales, como realidad de país.Las experiencias traumáticas por violencia inciden de manera significativa en la salud mental de la población, a mayor cantidad de eventos violentos experimentados, mayor probabilidad de presencia de trastornos mentales; asimismo a mayor resiliencia, menor aparición de sintomatología de Trastornos mentales y a mayor sintomatología de trastornos mentales, mayor utilización de estrategias de afrontamiento emocionales.

Factors associated with suffering domestic violence in women during the last semester of the pandemic in Honduras- Central America

“…exacerbating the high rates of violence in the region, which were reported to be three times the global average before the pandemic (28). And at the national level, Honduras lives in a normalized environment of violence, from the political violence that the country suffers, which is also influenced by living in a conservative environment and finding 60% of low educational level and 8% with no education; where it can be assumed that violence may not be identified or women are not allowed to talk about it (29). All these cases give us a picture of how we can be in an environment that generates greater abuse for women and other vulnerable populations, which should be evaluated with greater emphasis in future research.…”

Factors associated with suffering domestic violence in women during the last semester of the pandemic in Honduras- Central America

“…Exacerbating the high rates of violence in the region, which were reported to be three times the global average before the pandemic [28]. And at the national level, Honduras lives in a normalized environment of violence, from the political violence that the country suffers, which is also in uenced by living in a conservative environment and nding 60% of low educational level and 8% with no education; where it can be assumed that violence may not be identi ed or women are not allowed to talk about it [29]. All these cases give us a picture of how we can be in an environment that generates greater abuse for women and other vulnerable populations, which should be evaluated with greater emphasis in future research.…”

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“…Honduran health care experts have reported an alarming increase in mental illness diagnoses and suicide attempts since the 2009 coup (Valladares et al, 2018; VTV Somos Todos Honduras, 2017; Proceso Digital , 2018; La Prensa , July 6, October 20, 2019; July 2, 2020; Radio Progreso, February 21, 2019; Ramírez, 2019; Confidencial HN, 2022) in comparison with previously published rates (Reyes Ticas and Espinoza, 1993; Chirinos-Flores et al, 2002). 6 My own ethnographic research findings on trauma in Honduras have concurred with those of my Honduran medical colleagues and with those of clinical research by psychologists demonstrating that trauma and its embodied manifestations (medicalized as symptoms) are exacerbated by economic precarity, which in turn corresponds with housing, food, and bodily precarity in individuals with mental health diagnoses.…”