High depression prevalence in patients from a reference outpatient in fibromyalgia

• Autor(a) principal: Tonoli , Sofia Gonçalves
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Ana Júlia Campi Nunes de, Henna, Andre Joko, Martinez, José Eduardo, Henna, Elaine Aparecida Dacol
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Debates em Psiquiatria (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistardp.org.br/revista/article/view/222
• topic: depressão; fibromialgia; disfunção; depression; fibromyalgia; disability; depresión; fibromialgia; discapacidad

Introduction: Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic painful syndrome, which frequently co-occurs with depression, but the indexes of this co-occurrence are inconsistent among studies, showing large variability. Objective: Investigating and comparing the depression prevalence in patients coming from FM service of “Conjunto Hospitalar de Sorocaba“ with patients without FM from primary care. As well as, to evaluate age, socioeconomic status, employment, and being user of mental health service among these populations. Method: It was a cross-section study where were evaluated 35 women with FM and 27 women from primary care. Depression was assessed by the Beck Depression Inventory, for the others variables we used a sociodemographic questionnaire. The FM sample was mostly female, so we chose to exclude the men from the analysis. We compared the samples results according to sample provenience, and lately we evaluated only the FM sample, when we performed an exploratory correlations analysis, then the FM sample was separated in with depression and without depression to explore potentials differences among variables. Results: The depression prevalence observed was 65,7% in the FM sample and 29,6% in the without FM sample. Besides, the FM women were older (53,6 years older and 40 years older respectively), with more retirement/home stay rates, lower socio-economic indexes, and making previous use of mental health service, compared to the no FM. Conclusion: Given the high prevalence of depression and in our results, we could suggest that all patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia should be systematically screened to depression, aiming early diagnoses and interventions.