Ansiedade e depressão em familiares de pessoas que vieram a óbito por covid-19

Abstract

Mental disorders are considered a serious public health problem that affects the different dimensions of people's lives and their social context, decisively influencing the mental health-disease process. The presence of a Pandemic reinforced the need for mental health care for those affected and/or family members of people who died due to the disease. Requiring greater investments in the development of actions to promote and prevent mental health. In this way, the objective was to analyze the presence of depression and anxiety in family members of patients who died by Covid

in the municipality of Sobral-CE. This is a descriptive correlational study with a cross- sectional design, carried out with 100 family members of Covid victims residing in the

11th Health Region of the state of Ceará. Data collection took place from January to September 2022, through questionnaires on google forms through the sociodemographic, clinical, economic form and two questionnaire models, one related to anxiety (GAD-7) and the other to depression. (PHQ-9). The data were analyzed using statistics in Excel (2013) software, for Windows® and we also used the Stata/SE version 10.0 program for statistical analysis, which helped to verify the correlation between depression, measured by its scores and anxiety, also measured by the their total scores for each unit of analysis, the results are summarized in tables. The study was guided by Resolution No. 466, of December 12, 2012, with approval by the Ethics and Research Committee of Instituto Superior De Teologia Aplicada - INTA, No. 4,303,812. Most research participants were female (66%), aged between 18 and 32 years (74%), brown (46%), with religion (90%), without income (5%), without a partner (49%), with children (66%), living in their own home (42%) with 05 residents per household (51%). As for the presence of mental disorder, 88% had positive symptoms, in addition, 32% had a severe depressive disorder and 67% had an anxiety disorder, 27% had a moderate depressive disorder and 25% had a mild depressive disorder. Therefore, this study made it possible to identify the profile of the Covid victim's family members in Sobral, as well as their relationships with common mental disorder, depressive and anxiety episodes, generating evidence about important mental health problems in this public, which raises reflections. on the need for public health policies that involve effective interventions, beyond the pandemic, but focusing on the biopsychosocial individual with regard to mental, physical health and quality of life, in order to minimize symptoms.