Técnicas multivariadas aplicadas na determinação dos fatores sociais que concorrem a depressão de mulheres

Abstract

In this work we investigate which social factors contribute more to induce a depressive state in women. We sample 1000 patients from the public health system of the metropolitan area of Recife. Among then 57% were diagnostic as depressive and the others as suffering some humor disturbance. The social factors that we took in account were age, professional activity, condition civil, son, education level and sanitary area. The data we analyzed through multivariate analysis, i.e. , principal component analysis and discriminate analysis. We found out that, among the considered social factors, age, civil, and professional activity are the most important factors as longs depression is concerned. Further, the discriminate analysis shown that there exists a statistical significant difference between the group of women which are probable diagnostic as depressive and the other group in our sample.