Relação entre depressão e obesidade em mulheres

Abstract

The depression is a mental disease that affects up to 20% of the women throughout life, starting between 20 and 40 years. Can be caused by several factors like, lack of social support, economic and psychological. Excess weight of a multifactorial disease, being linked in biological issues, social and cultural, that we should pay spacial attention for having several metabolic complications associated, between them, anxiety and depression The present study aims to survey about eating habits, the occutence of psichopatbologg’es like depression, the practice of fhysical activity and the perception os women’s self steem from Maringá and region. Through a questionnaire awailalde on Gloogle platform, 88 women between 20 and 50 years old say that he tendency to gain weight starts in adolescence, hawever, 38% of the participants have BMI within the normal range. About 60% of the participants declare to have sought nutritional support and half of them have sought medical hel to treat the psichopatbgies. Among the main psichotropic daig’s used, he fluxetinebis the most mentioned by the participants who use medicine to treat depression. As it is a descriptive study, he data presented in this project do not correlate with the occurence of depression with obesity in participant women, it aims just to survey about food and psychological situation of the participants.