FATORES ASSOCIADOS À ELEVADA SINTOMATOLOGIA DEPRESSIVA EM ADOLESCENTES DE 11 A 15 ANOS ESTUDO DE BASE POPULACIONAL

Abstract

The aim of this study was to identify factors associated to high depressive sintomatology in adolescents with ages between 11 and 15 years in Pelotas - south of Brazil. In this cross-sectional population-based investigation, 79 of the 448 sections of Pelotas were randomly selected. All of the residences of the selected sections were visited seeking to the youths who answered to a self-report and secret questionnaire that contained a scale for depressive symptoms - Children's Depression Inventory (CDI). In total, 1265 adolescents were located for the research team and 1145 answered to the questionnaire. The prevalence found for high depressive sintomatology was 2,1%. After logistic regression adjusted to a hierarchical model, a worse socioeconomic condition of environment, history of academic disapproval, absence of religious practice, to have taken drunkenness in the last month as well as the indicative of conduct disorder, increased the adolescents chances to present high depressive sintomatology. Therefore, the needs of a review on public politics that approach the themes associated to the depressive sintomatology are evidence