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Sintomatologia depressiva e qualidade de vida na população geral

2008; Sociedade Portuguesa de Psicologia da Saúde; Volume: 9; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

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Sofia Gameiro, Carlos Carona, Marco Pereira, María Cristina Canavarro, Mário R. Simões, Daniel Rijo, Manuel João Quartilho, Tiago Paredes, Adriano Vaz Serra,

Occupational Health and Burnout

It is consensual that depressive symptomatology has a strong psychosocialimpacton a person's Quality ofLife (QoL), butitis stillrelatively unclear its differential impact, according to depression level of severity. The goals are: 1) analyzethepresenceofdepressivesymptomatologyinthegeneralpopulation;2)assess theimpactofseverityofdepressivesymptomatologyonQoL.307subjectsfromgeneral population were assessed regarding QoL (WHOQOL-100) and depressive symptoms (Beck Depression Inventory). Fifty-nine individuals (19.2%) showed depressive symptoms. From these, 47 fit the Mild Depression BDI category, 11 de Moderate Depression and 1 the Severe Depression. Subjects with depressive symptoms had significantly lower values in all QoL domains and facets. Depressive symptomatology proved to be significantly and negatively associated to all QoL domains. Subjects that fitthemilddepressioncategoryoftheBDIreportedsignificantlylowerscoresofQoL on all WHOQOL (but the Spirituality) domains than non depressed individuals. This