OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to identify the presence of depressive symptoms in women during the climacteric and to analyze the related biopsychosocial indicators. METHODS: The Questionnaire for the Identification and Context of Women during the Climacteric and Beck’s Inventory were applied to 30 women who first attended the Multidisciplinary Menopause Outpatient Clinic at the HCRP/FMRP/USP, Brazil. Data were statistically processed through bivariate and multivariate analysis. RESULTS: According to the Beck Inventory the presence of depression was identified in 14 of the 30 women attended in that outpatient clinic from November 2003 to December 2004. CONCLUSION: Results showed the increased presence of depressive symptoms in non-white women between 40 and 49 years old, who had a partner, belonged to biological groups B or C, were going through problems with their partner, had drinking habits and had faced a situation of recent death or unemployment in the family.
depression; climacteric; nursing
