Qualidade de vida e sintomas depressivos em indivíduos expostos ao Césio-137, em Goiânia

• Autor(a) principal: FUINI, Silvana Cruz
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/1756
• topic: qualidade de vida; depressão; Césio; impacto psicossocial.; quality of life; depression; ionizing radiation; Cesium; psychosocial impact; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA::EPIDEMIOLOGIA

Objectives: This study evaluated the Quality-of-Life (QoL) of those individuals exposed to Cesium-137, in Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil and its association with symptoms of depression and socio-demographic factors. Methods: 62 subjects participated, who were divided into two groups: Group I (people with radiodermatitis and / or with cytogenetic desimetry above 20 rads), n=33; Group II (people with cytogenetic desimetry < or =20 rads), n=29.The instrument WHOQL-Bref was applied to evaluate the (QoL) and the scale for Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for the screening of symptoms of depression. The social-demographic factors were collected through the Monitoring System of Victims of Radiation. Data analysis used the syntax of WHOQOL-BREF using SPSS ® for Windows ® version 15.0. To compare the variables we used the Student's T test and ANOVA. For correlation between WHOQOL-BREF and BDI used the Pearson test. It was considered as significance level value of 5% (p <0.05). Results: Among the areas of WHOQL-Bref, the environment had the highest mean scores (59.02, SD = 20:39) and the psychological had the lowest average (53.02, SD = 20:39). The associations between the physical, psychological and social relationships were significant for the age variable, respectively (p = 0.018, p = 0.002, p = 0.001). For the BDI it was observed that 33.9% of subjects were above the cutoff point (> 16), showing a difference in those over 41 years of age (p> 0.05), all items of the BDI were correlated with all domains of WHOQL-Bref (p = <0.0010). Conclusions: Individuals exposed to cesium-137 suffer considerable impact on their QOL, with persistence of psychosocial problems, especially for those with more than 41 years. BDI results showed that radiation exposure constitutes a risk factor for psychiatric disorders, verifying the presence of significant depressive symptoms, especially in people over 41 years and, to a lesser extent, the members of Group I and distributed among women in both groups. The domains of the WHOQOL-BREF and BDI correlated indicating that QOL and depressive symptoms are constructs with areas of intersection. Sociodemographic factors related to education and religion associated with the results of the assessment of QOL and symptoms of depression.