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Depression in older adult patients hospitalized in COVID-19 services in a public hospital, Lima - 2020
(Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, 2020-10-11) Almonacid Navarro, Beatriz; Mori Castro, Jaime Alberto
The world faces a threat from the COVID-19 disease, caused by SARS-CoV-2, affecting 260,000 worldwide and claiming the lives of nearly 12,000 people when it began a month ago. The mortality rate is 2% to 3%. The severity of COVID-19 is related to immunocompromised states, age and 15% of the first wave of deaths in China was 60 years old. Data from China, the mortality rate at age 60 to 69 years is 3.6%, and reaches 18% at 80 years or older (1). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the population is aging; it is estimated that the number of older adults will double by 2050, reaching 22% of the total population. 15% suffer from some mental disorder and 6% of disability in this group is attributed to mental health problems (2). In Latin America, the level of prevalence of depression in older adults is diverse. In Mexico, it is between 20 and 60%, in Colombia, 12%, Ecuador, 70%. A multicenter study in Colombia found 45% depression in hospitalized older adults (3). Materials and Methods: The approach will be quantitative, applied when the researcher is interested in collecting numerical data that can be analyzed by mathematical means. The design will be descriptive-cross-sectional, in which participants are measured once to provide a description of the variable. Population, sample and sampling: The population will be made up of older adults hospitalized in COVI-19 services in a public hospital located in Lima, during the months of August and September. That they have an oxygen saturation of greater than 90%.