Estadística y factores incidentes de la depresión y el suicidio en adolescentes de Latinoamérica durante la pandemia COVID-19

Abstract

Depression in adolescents is evident in their behavior and mood. The factors for adolescents to present depression and suicidal behavior can be genetic, social and personal. The Covid-19 pandemic has generated a health crisis and emergency at the level, causing health discomfort and psychological impact on vulnerable groups such as adolescents, which can cause an increase in global pathologies. The investigations carried out on the psychological impact on adolescents within Latin American countries are cases, which is why this essay has the objective of characterizing depression and suicide in adolescents in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic through of a bibliographic and statistical review to determine the factors that influenced the mentioned pathologies. From this it was found that during the pandemic, adolescents in some Latin American countries appeared an increase in mental disorders such as depression, prevailing more in women and an increase in the suicide rate, mostly in men. On the other hand, within the factors that affected pathologies and symptoms of depression and cases of suicide were confinement, limitations in the school area, misinformation, being victims of domestic violence, fear of contagion, in addition to the loss of relatives and antecedents of already existing pathologies that due to the pandemic increased the symptoms.