TY - JOUR AU - Ocampo, José Mauricio AU - Romero, Nhora AU - Saa, Héctor A. AU - Herrera, Julián A. AU - Reyes Ortiz, Carlos A. PY - 2006/11/19 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Prevalence of religiosity, family function, social support and deppresive symptoms in old people. Cali, Colombia, 2001. JF - Colombia Medica JA - Colomb Med VL - 37 IS - 2 Supl 1 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.25100/cm.v37i2 Supl 1.434 UR - https://colombiamedica.univalle.edu.co/index.php/comedica/article/view/434 SP - 26-30 AB - <p><strong>Objective: </strong>To determine the prevalence of religious practice, family dysfunction and social support in older people with deppresive symptoms.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> A descriptive study was performed in La Selva Health Center (Cali, Colombia) during 2001. Measures used were depression (GDS-Yesavage Scale), intrinsic/extrinsic religiosity measurement (Gorsuch-McPherson), family APGAR (Smilkstein scale) and frequency of religious practice. Univariate and bivariate analyses were performed.</p> <p><strong>Results: </strong>136 subjects were recruited with an average age of 69.2±6.4 year old, 78 (57%) were male, 82 (60%) were married, 21 (15%) were widowers, 133 (97.8%) were believers or had religious practice; 90% were catholics, 126 (93%) of patients prayed at least once day, 60 (44.4%) had intrinsic religiosity, 46 (33.8%) extrinsic religiosity, and 16 (11.8%) mixed religiosity; 40 (29.4%) had family dysfunction, 69 (50.7%) had not an adequate social support; 10 (7.3%) had high depressive symptoms (GDS >5/15) and 5 (3.7%) had severe depressive symptoms (GDS >10/15). The presence of chronic diseases, and being a widower had more frequency in older people with deppresive symptoms (p< 0.05). Most old subjects with depression had no regular religious practice (p=0.03).</p> <p><strong>Conclussion: </strong>Male gender, presence of chronic diseases and being a widower had more frequency in old people with deppresive symptoms (p< 0.05). Religious practice could be an important support for old patients’ health.</p> ER -