Abstract
Objectives:
To identify the prevalence and analyze the existence of predictive factors of depressive symptomatology among nurses from intensive care unit.
Methods:
A quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional study was performed with 91 intensive care nurses. Two instruments were used for data collection performed in July 2014: a sociodemographic questionnaire and the Beck Depression Inventory (version I). Fisher's exact test was used to analyze the existence of associations between depressive symptomatology and categorical variables.
Results:
Eleven percent of the sample presented with depressive symptomatology. Of the variables studied, none was significantly associated with depressive symptomatology (p-value ≥ 0.05).
Conclusion:
The prevalence of depressive symptomatology corresponded to 11%. None of the variables showed a significant association with depressive symptomatology.
Keywords:
Nurses; Intensive care units; Stress, psychological; Depressive disorder; Prevalence