Quality of Life in the Face of Depression Among Older People: A Cross-Sectional Study in Brazil and Portugal.
Anna Carolyna Vieira CavalcanteAdriana Catarina de Souza OliveiraAline Gabriele Araújo de Oliveira TorresElise Cristina Dos Santos FélixBruno Araújo da Silva DantasFrancisco Arnoldo Nunes de MirandaLaurência GemitoFelismina Rosa Parreira MendesGilson de Vasconcelos TorresEulália Maria Chaves MaiaPublished in: Psychiatry and clinical psychopharmacology (2023)
There was an association between better assessments of the physical and functional aspects of quality of life and lower levels of depression, in which we could highlight those aspects related to physical health and functionality. Among the groups studied, Portugal had better quality of life evaluations than Brazil. However, none of the groups overlapped the other in levels of depression.