Abstract
The vulnerable psychosocial conditions found within poverty are made worse when dealing with populations from rural areas. These groups suffer the most from a lack of basic infrastructure and the problems that arise from the lack of social development. These people are hit the hardest, but remain less visible and far out of reach of public policies, especially in the case of mental health. For this discussion, we analyze cases of comorbidity of common mental disorders and alcohol abuse and its determinations among residents of land reform settlements. It is a combined quantitative-qualitative delineated study, with an initial sample of 2,012 residents. After the administration of a sociodemographic questionnaire and screening tools (SRQ-20 e Audit), 39 cases of comorbidity were identified, to which semi-structured interviews were administered. For descriptive analysis of the quantitative data, we used SPSS for Windows version 20, and the construction of dialogic maps for qualitative data. We observed the interdependence between socioeconomic conditions, the characteristics of territories, cultural patterns, individual life stories and mental diseases in particular.
Keywords:
mental health; living standards; rural settings; vulnerability