Common Mental Disorders and Contemporary Factors: 1982 Birth Cohort
Lenice de Castro Muniz de Quadros, Luciana de Avila Quevedo, Helen Gonçalves, Bernardo Lessa Horta, Janaína Vieira dos Santos Motta, Denise Petrucci Gigante
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To describe the association between common mental disorders and socio-demographic variables, smoking habits and stressful events among the 30-year-old members of a 1982 cohort. METHOD: Mental disorder was analyzed by the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20). Poisson regression was used to analyze the unadjusted and adjusted associations. RESULTS: Low level of education and stressful events increased the prevalence of mental disorders for both genders. Lower income for women and unemployment for men also remained associated with CMD. CONCLUSION: It was possible to describe the association between contemporary factors and mental disorders in a young population, to which prevention and control measures, through public policies proposed to the areas of Primary Care, Mental Health and Education, can represent a better quality of life and health.