Author:

• Ellen Ingrid Souza Aragão - Aragão, Ellen Ingrid Souza - UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO, FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS MÉDICAS - LABORATÓRIO INTERDISCIPLINAR DE PESQUISA EM ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA - <ellen.isapsi@hotmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Flávia Batista Portugal - Portugal, F.B - , ES - Fundação Osvaldo Cruz - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca, Departamento de Ciências Sociais - <flaviabportugal@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4425-2627
• MONICA RODRIGUES CAMPOS - Campos, M. R. - Fundação Osvaldo Cruz - Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sérgio Arouca, Departamento de Ciências Sociais - <monicarodriguescampos@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7443-5977
• Claudia de Souza Lopes - Lopes, Claudia de Souza - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro - Instituto de Medicina Social, departamento de Epidemiologia - <lopes@ims.uerj.br>
• Sandra Lúcia Correia Lima Fortes - Fortes, Sandra Lúcia Correia Lima - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) / Faculdade de Ciências Médicas (FCM) , Disciplina de Saúde Mental e Psicologia Médica - <sandrafortes@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9918-1555

Thematic Area:

Saúde Mental

Abstract:

This work discusses the relationship among hypertension, diabetes, anxiety, depression, and social support through primary care. This research aimed at detecting the association among: physical disease, mental disease, support network, and perceived social support in the research sample. This study is a cross section ed in a bigger research project, funded by Pan American Health Organization and carried out in 2002, in Petrópolis municipality, RJ. The sample consisted in 714 patients with ages ranging18 to 65 years old. The results showed association between variablessupport network either with presence of hypertension or diabetes, and also with the presence of common mental disorders, but with normal patterns. While in the patients afflicted with hypertension and diabetes, associations with the perceived support were positive; although on those TMC patients they were negative and associated in a inverted way to the degree of mental disease.

Keywords:

hypertensiondiabetessocial supportmental health

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