Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: YVES MARTINS VARELA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : YVES MARTINS VARELA
DATA : 24/09/2018
HORA: 10:30
LOCAL: Sala de aula do PPg em Psicobiologia
TÍTULO:

PSYCHOBIOLOGICAL EVALUATION ABOUT COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT FOR MAJOR DEPRESSION IN YOUNG COLLEGE STUDENTS

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Major Depressive Disorder; Cognitive behavioral Therapy; Group psychotherapy; Biomarker; Salivary cortisol.

PÁGINAS: 26
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Psicologia
RESUMO:

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) has as its main characteristics depressed mood and loss of pleasure, which cause social losses, sit down and sit in the sick person. In exponential growth with each generation, a discount of 4.4% of the world population and 5.6% of Brazilians. Most MDD studies refer to the adult population, the disease is a leading cause of death, usually by suicide, among adults in their 20s. The present study is dedicated to the psychophysiological evaluation of the effectiveness of a group psychotherapy for the treatment of major depression. Therefore, this is a clinical research oriented to the treatment of this psychopathology, where, after the diagnosis, performed by a psychologist and psychiatrist, has start the treatment by Cognitive-behavioral Therapy (CbT) of the group, which consists of 14 sessions during a interview of 4.5 months. The public has this study are 36 UFRN students, belonging to classes C and D, divided into 3 subgroups to provide psychotherapy. Before the treatment, and every month of psychotherapy, the stimuli of the psychometric instruments, validated in Brazil, to measure mood, anxiety and self-esteem. In addition, salivary cortisol upon awakening will be investigated as a potential biomarker of both the diagnosis of MDD and the therapeutic follow-up. With regard to hormone collections, these occur in the week before and after treatment, in a laboratory at UFRN, where patients spend the night. Among the expected results are: (1) that CbT reduces the depressive and anxious symptoms and propicie increase in the self-esteem of the volunteers; and that (2), in the view of the hormone demonstrate changes in their levels, corroborating the potential of the same to be classified as biomarker of this psychopathology.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Interno - 1350337 - FIVIA DE ARAUJO LOPES
Interno - 6346130 - MARIA BERNARDETE CORDEIRO DE SOUSA
Presidente - 1718518 - NICOLE LEITE GALVAO COELHO