Caracterización de pacientes con trastorno depresivo atendidos en consulta externa del Hospital Homero Castanier, año 2022

Abstract

Background: depression is the main cause of disability worldwide, multiple studies have been carried out in other parts, but not in our environment, due to this it is essential to know all the characteristics that make up this pathology in order to prevent them and also to provide adequate care for people suffering from this disease. Objective: to characterize patients with Depressive Disorder treated in the outpatient clinic of the Homero Castanier Hospital, in Azogues, during the year 2022. Method: a descriptive study was carried out. The universe was made up of an anonymized database with 302 participants with depression. Descriptive statistics were applied, central tendency statistics (mean) and dispersion statistics (standard deviation) were used for quantitative variables, while frequency values (n) and percentages (%) were used for qualitative variables. Results: the group of young adults predominates with 43% (mean age: 45.1 years; SD: ± 20.05). Women predominate with 74.2%. 95% of people come from the Cañar province. 49% completed primary school. Married people represented 45.4%. The majority of people do housework (53.3%) or are employees (41.7%). 94% of cases were mild depressive episodes. 94% of those surveyed said they had no family history of depression. The most used drugs were SSRIs (85.4%). 99.3% receive psychotherapy. Conclusions: the results obtained are in accordance with local and global statistics. Discrepancies were observed when relating the variables severity of the depressive episode with marital status and employment situation