ASSOCIAÇÃO ENTRE SINTOMAS DE DEPRESSÃO E FRAGILIDADE EM PESSOAS IDOSAS INSTITUCIONALIZADAS

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Amanda Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Evangelista e Souza , Eric Hudson, Lemos Leão, Luana, Dias Rodrigues , Vinícius, Rodrigues de Sousa Fernandes Carneiro, Lara Sofia, Sobral Monteiro Júnior , Renato
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre o Envelhecimento
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/RevEnvelhecer/article/view/124245

This study aimed to analyze depressive symptoms among frail and pre-frail institutionalized older adults and to assess whether there is a relationship between these outcomes. Methods: a cross-sectional study with older people over 60 years old, living in four Long Term Care Facilities Brazilian. A total of 67 older people of both sexes participated in this study. Global cognition (Mini-Mental State Examination), symptoms of depression (Geriatric Depression Scale), and frailty (Fried Frailty Phenotype) were evaluated. Results: In this study, 52.2% of the sample were frail; depressive symptoms were identified in 49.3%; the female sex was predominant (64%) and also presented a higher frequency of frailty (p=0.02). The presence of depressive symptoms was not different between the sexes (p=0.31). The pre-frail older adults had a higher mean score on the global cognition assessment (p<0.01), and there was no age difference between the groups (p=0.11). Among the frail, a higher median in depression symptom scores was observed (U=365,500; p<0.01). Both conditions were associated with an estimated 2.8 times higher chance (95%CI 1.05;7.61, p=0.04) of frail older people having symptoms of depression. Conclusion: the frail state in the institutionalized older adults evaluated was associated with a greater presence of depressive symptoms, with an estimated chance almost 3 times higher compared to pre-frail older adults.