Beatriz Oliveira Carvalho, Érico Castro-Costa, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, Antônio Ignácio de Loyola
{"title":"Association between depressive symptoms and social support in a nationally representative sample of older adults (ELSI-Brasil).","authors":"Beatriz Oliveira Carvalho, Érico Castro-Costa, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, Antônio Ignácio de Loyola","doi":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3543","DOIUrl":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3543","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate the association between depressive symptoms and social support among a representative sample of the Brazilian population aged 50 years or older.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Cross-sectional study of 8,074 participants of the second wave of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study on Aging (ELSI-Brasil). Depressive symptoms were screened with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D8) instrument, and social support was investigated in its structural and functional dimensions. Sociodemographic variables and health conditions were considered for adjustment in investigating the association between social support and depressive symptoms using the Poisson regression model.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The prevalence of depressive symptoms was estimated at 19.1% (95%CI 16.7-21.7). In the analysis adjusted for possible confounding factors, depressive symptoms were independently associated with negative social support in the items \"not married\" (prevalence ratio [PR] = 1.24; 95%CI 1.07-1.44), \"not having someone to trust\" (PR = 1.31; 95%CI 1.10-1.56) and \"not having someone to borrow money or an object from, in case of need\" (PR = 1.46; 95%CI 1.21-1.75).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The present findings highlight the importance of social relations in determining the presence of depressive symptoms and reinforce the need to implement public policies aimed at strengthening social networks to minimize this public health problem.</p>","PeriodicalId":21244,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria","volume":" ","pages":"e20243543"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11744260/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142000666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Suicide or accident? A call for expansion of psychological autopsy studies.","authors":"Ricky Burns, Leo Sher","doi":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3594","DOIUrl":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3594","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21244,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria","volume":" ","pages":"e20243594"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11474439/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140185444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Depression, anxiety, stress, and well-being in fringe groups.","authors":"Josef Finsterer","doi":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3784","DOIUrl":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3784","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21244,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria","volume":" ","pages":"e20243784"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11744259/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142294245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Milena França, Sofia Oliveira de Souza, Gabrielly Galindo Azevedo Costa, Kátia Cristina Lima de Petribú
{"title":"Association between victimization, mental disorders, and quality of life among Brazilian transgender persons: preliminary findings.","authors":"Milena França, Sofia Oliveira de Souza, Gabrielly Galindo Azevedo Costa, Kátia Cristina Lima de Petribú","doi":"10.47626/1516-4446-2023-3215","DOIUrl":"10.47626/1516-4446-2023-3215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21244,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria","volume":" ","pages":"e20233215"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11302991/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139698184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thiago Henrique Roza, Daniel Prates-Baldez, Debora da Silva Noal, Beatriz Schmidt, Ana Cecilia Andrade de Moraes Weintraub, Laiana Azevedo Quagliato, Antonio Egídio Nardi, Flavio Kapczinski
{"title":"Floods in southern Brazil: the urgent need for mental health support in the context of climatic disasters.","authors":"Thiago Henrique Roza, Daniel Prates-Baldez, Debora da Silva Noal, Beatriz Schmidt, Ana Cecilia Andrade de Moraes Weintraub, Laiana Azevedo Quagliato, Antonio Egídio Nardi, Flavio Kapczinski","doi":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3845","DOIUrl":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3845","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21244,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria","volume":" ","pages":"e20243845"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11559866/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142294246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalia T Ito, Déborah Oliveira, Fabricio M S Rodrigues, Erico Castro-Costa, Maria F Lima-Costa, Cleusa P Ferri
{"title":"Depressive symptoms and self-rated health among Brazilian older adults: baseline data from the ELSI-Brazil study.","authors":"Natalia T Ito, Déborah Oliveira, Fabricio M S Rodrigues, Erico Castro-Costa, Maria F Lima-Costa, Cleusa P Ferri","doi":"10.47626/1516-4446-2023-3331","DOIUrl":"10.47626/1516-4446-2023-3331","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To investigate whether having a higher number of depressive symptoms is associated with negative self-rated health (SRH) even in the absence of illness.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This is a secondary analysis of baseline data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brazil), conducted in 2015-2016, using a national sample of 9,412 people aged 50 or over. SRH was dichotomized into poor or very poor and very good or excellent, good, or average. Depressive symptoms were assessed through the eight-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D8). Sociodemographic variables, information about unhealthy behaviors, and the number of chronic conditions were also analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Having depressive symptoms was strongly associated with poor or very poor SRH both in the unadjusted and adjusted analyses. The magnitude of the association was reduced when the number of chronic illnesses was included in the multivariate analysis, along with the other sociodemographic variables and unhealthy behaviors (OR 1.35, 95%CI 1.31-1.39).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Having depressive symptoms may contribute towards having a poorer perception of health, even in the absence of health conditions. SRH is a multidimensional construct that can accurately reflect a person's state of general mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":21244,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria","volume":" ","pages":"e20233331"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11189128/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138299863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of galectin-1 and galectin-3 levels in patients with bipolar disorder: is galectin-3 associated with treatment response?","authors":"Meryem Yüksel Aytekin, Aybeniz Civan Kahve, Rabia Nazik Ekinci, Arzu Sakallı Nural, Işık Batuhan Çakmak, Nagihan Ayaz Naycı, Erol Göka","doi":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3535","DOIUrl":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3535","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Galectins (Gal), which have been linked with inflammatory response in the central nervous system, may play an important role in the pathogenesis of bipolar disorder. In this study, we investigated whether serum Gal-1 and Gal-3 levels are related to bipolar disorder.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Thirty-six patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder were included. C-reactive protein, Gal-1, Gal-3 serum concentrations were evaluated on the first day of hospitalization and the third week of treatment and were compared with 41 healthy controls. Illness severity was evaluated with the Young Mania Rating Scale.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Upon hospitalization, the C-reactive protein levels of bipolar disorder patients were significantly higher than in the third week of treatment or in healthy controls. Gal-1 levels on the first day of hospitalization and the third week of treatment were higher than those of healthy controls.There was no significant difference between patient Gal-3 levels upon hospitalization and those of healthy controls; at the end of the third week of treatment, Gal-3 levels were significantly higher than on the first day of hospitalization.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our study is the first to show a change in Gal levels after treatment and to evaluate the role of Gal in bipolar disorder. Gal-1 may play a role in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder. Gal-3 could be a biomarker candidate for assessing treatment response.</p>","PeriodicalId":21244,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria","volume":" ","pages":"e20243535"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11744267/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141065665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bárbara Tietbohl-Santos, Augusto Ossamu Shintani, Bruno Braga Montezano, Paola Biazin, Giovanna Maiolli Signori, Rafaela Pulice, Giancarlo Franceschi Dalla Vecchia, Júlio César Bebber, Lucas Noronha, Ives Cavalcante Passos
{"title":"Protective factors against depression in high-risk children and adolescents: a systematic review of longitudinal studies.","authors":"Bárbara Tietbohl-Santos, Augusto Ossamu Shintani, Bruno Braga Montezano, Paola Biazin, Giovanna Maiolli Signori, Rafaela Pulice, Giancarlo Franceschi Dalla Vecchia, Júlio César Bebber, Lucas Noronha, Ives Cavalcante Passos","doi":"10.47626/1516-4446-2023-3363","DOIUrl":"10.47626/1516-4446-2023-3363","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>From a preventive perspective, this study reviewed the literature on protective factors against depressive symptoms in high-risk children and adolescents.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a thorough search of the PubMed, APA, EMCare, and Embase databases for studies published between 1946 and August 25, 2023. We included only longitudinal studies that analyzed protective factors for depressive symptoms in high-risk children or adolescents, excluding cross-sectional studies, reviews, and pre-clinical studies.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 29 studies with 62,405 participants were analyzed and 38 protective factors were identified. Positive individual characteristics, family factors, peer relationships, school-related aspects, neighborhood characteristics, and intrinsic religiosity were associated with improved depression outcomes.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings have important implications for preventive strategies in this population. Addressing protective factors can help prevent depression and enhance lifetime mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":21244,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria","volume":" ","pages":"e20233363"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11559830/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140851482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
César Augusto Trinta Weber, Antônio Geraldo da Silva
{"title":"The role of psychiatry in areas affected by natural disasters.","authors":"César Augusto Trinta Weber, Antônio Geraldo da Silva","doi":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3752","DOIUrl":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21244,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria","volume":" ","pages":"e20243752"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11559828/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141420666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concerns over analytical decisions in \"Cat ownership and schizophrenia-related disorders and psychoticlike experiences: a systematic review and meta-analysis\".","authors":"Yung Gonzaga, Igor Eckert","doi":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3569","DOIUrl":"10.47626/1516-4446-2024-3569","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21244,"journal":{"name":"Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria","volume":" ","pages":"e20243569"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11427989/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140050207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}