The trial noted that the statistics for anxious, depressive, and suicidal risk symptomatology are higher in younger people with lower self-perceived socioeconomic status. In addition, the professionals recalled that the state of mental health requires monitoring, early detection and intervention policies.
The participants who perform physical activity (44.79% of the total) showed lower levels of anxiety and depression than those who did not. On the other hand, more than 50% of those surveyed who do not carry out therapeutic treatment say they need it, but 34.75% have the impediment of not being able to pay for it.
Curiously, 54.55% of the participants say they are going through a crisis. Of that total, 49.44% mentioned an economic crisis. Then, other difficulties were mentioned, such as vital, family, partner, vocational, mourning, identity and violence of different types -family, gender, work, etc.
Faced with psychological discomfort, 40.44% talk with friends, 22.61% practice prayer, 22.09% turn to a professional psychologist, 21.57% take medication, without specifying which and 18.26% practice a sport.
A study carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) indicated that women are much more likely to suffer from depression than men: mental pathology occurs in almost twice the proportion in females (12%) than in men. male (6%). At the same time, the international body warned that it is the second cause of disability worldwide. In turn, given the rise of alternative medicine, professionals warned that techniques such as hypnosis or acupuncture did not prove effective.
