Environmental Factors And Depression In With Obesity

Environmental factors have been identified as determinants of health-disease process of individuals and include: demographic conditions, leisure economics, use of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, sedentary lifestyle and even changes in eating habits. The present study aims to evaluate the correlation between imc alterations and depression and the association with environmental factors. This is a cross-sectional and quantitative epidemiological study. Sample was composed of 488 adult individuals of both genders. Being 131 men and 357 women. Sample consisted of 488 individuals of both genders, in whom the socioeconomic profile, the presence of mental disorders (anxiety, stress and depression), body satisfaction and quality of life were verified in individuals with normal weight eutrophism and obese. Most of the sample consisted of women, in social class C and D, for the most part. Schooling was incomplete higher education like most people, followed by full high school and college. In our results, it was possible to perceive the interaction between weight gain and mental illness. The sociodemographic variables create an alert about the influence of social determinants on the emergence of mental disorders, poor quality of life, overweight and also obesity. It serves as an alert for the construction of policies and actions for the prevention of obesity, as well as mental disorders, actions that pass through the social determinants, so that the health indicators are improved, in an epidemiological scope.