Common Mental Disorders and rural living conditions: analysis of vulnerabilities in farmers and fishermen.

Abstract

This study relates the living conditions with common mental disorders (CMD) in farmers and fishermen in rural territory. Data were collected in rural municipality through cross-sectional study design with 152 family farmers and/or artisanal fishermen who responded form about their living conditions: demographic, housing, environment, production mode, income, education, leisure, transportation and nourishment, in addition to application of the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) to screen for CMD. A association was found between CMD and demografic and nourishment variables: "sex" [X2(1) = 9.786; p = 0.002], "concern about food ending up at home" [X2(1) = 5.466; p = 0.019] and "limitation of favorite food due to lack of production/money" [X2(1) = 8.953; p = 0.003]. In the adjusted analysis of regression, there was association between females sex [PR = 2.20; 95%CI = 1.13-4.261; p = 0.019] with outcome of CMD. The women were predominantly responsible for domestic work concomitantly with work in agriculture and/or fishing (82.6% n = 57; p < 0,01) in this group. This relationship between CMD and living conditions, mainly related to the female sex, need to be focus of rural health care actions.