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DE LOS SANTOS, Perla Vanessa  y  CARMONA VALDES, Sandra Emma. Prevalence of depression in elderly men and women in Mexico and risk factors. PSM [online]. 2018, vol.15, n.2, pp.95-119. ISSN 1659-0201.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/psm.v15i2.29255.

The objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of depression in men and women from 60 to 103 years old in Mexico from the results of the National Survey of Health and Aging. The methodology used was a type of test expo facto, non-experimental, transactional, correlational; through a binomial logistic regression model, the prevalence of depression was determined in the 5275 people of an age range of 60 to 103 years old. Among the main results, it was found that there is a prevalence of depression in people over 74.3% (1734 older men and 2186 women). In addition, it was evidenced that variables such as age, schooling, marital status, level of somatization, occupation and social activities are statistically associated with the onset of depression in older people. The study concludes that personal, structural, economic, social, and health risk factors analyzed in this study act differently when talking about women and men.

Palabras clave : older people; men; women; depression; risk factors; México.

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