DEPRESSION AND ASSOCIATED FACTORS IN THE CONTEXT OF BRAZILIAN WOMEN
Prevalence, Depression, Women’s health
Depression is a public health problem and affects patients, families and caregivers, and it is among the ten leading causes of disability in the world. Women are twice as affected by depression than men. Aim: This study evaluated prevalence and factors associated to depression in Brazilian women at reproductive age. Methods: 22,621 women aged 18-49 years were analyzed from the National Health Survey 2013. The outcomes were depression diagnosis and physical therapy as an adjunct treatment in the management of depression, independent variables were sociodemographic items, lifestyle, reproductive history and chronic diseases. Descriptive and bivariate data analysis were conducted. Results: there was a prevalence of 8.26% of depression diagnosis, socio-demographic factors and lifestyle habits were associated to depression diagnosis. Women who have had sexual intercourse (OR=0.78; CI95% 0.69-0.87), who used contraception (OR=0.78; CI95% 0.71-0.86) and were pregnant (OR=0.43; CI95% 0.30-0.63) were less likely to have depression. In contrast, women with self-reported poor health (OR=4.24; CI95% 3.64-4.94), victims of violence from a known person (OR=2.79; CI95% 2.35-3.31) or unknown person (OR=1.86; CI95% 1.52-2.28 ), with menarche before twelve years (OR=1.10; CI95% 1.01-1.21), with at least one delivery (OR=1.70; CI95% 1.52-1.92), submitted to cesarean section (OR=1.33; CI95% 1.19- 1.48), with low birth weight child (OR=1.36; CI95% 1.18-1.56) or preterm (OR=1.69; CI95% 1.49-1.93) were more likely to have depression. Chronic conditions increased chances for depressive outcome. It was observed that women who self-reported their health as poor (OR=0.36; CI95%: 0.14-0.96), who reported sleep problems (OR=0:57; CI95%: 0.36-0.90) and feeling fatigue or indisposition (OR=0.52; CI95%: 0.33-0.83) were less likely to be under physical therapy treatment. Conclusions: This study showed considerable prevalence of depression among the women studied, as well as its association to sociodemographic factors, gynecological and reproductive history and health conditions and It was observed that physical therapy treatment for depression is still not usual among Brazilian women, since only a small portion performed this type of treatment.