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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Health Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1336562

MENTAL HEALTH INDEX OF THE ELDERLY IN MEDELLIN (COLOMBIA) -2021: A FACTORIAL ANALYSIS

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Sandra P. Ochoa-Nieto Sandra P. Ochoa-Nieto Luisa M. Benjumea-Gómez Luisa M. Benjumea-Gómez Doris Cardona-Arango Doris Cardona-Arango *Angela Segura-Cardona Angela Segura-Cardona Alejandra Segura-Cardona Alejandra Segura-Cardona Carlos A. Robledo-Marin Carlos A. Robledo-Marin
  • CES University, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia

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    Introduction: For people over 60 years of age, there are several risk factors for developing mental disorders. There are multiple domains of mental health, also considered as capacities, which can comprise the psychological well-being of older people. For this reason, it is considered that resilient coping, self-compassion, self-esteem, hopelessness, quality of life, and depression are the characteristics and adaptive mechanisms that bring together the main risk and protective factors for imbalance in mental well-being. Objective: Establish the demographic, social, and family factors, as well as the clinical characteristics and lifestyle habits that influence the mental health of the elderly in the city of Medellín, in the year 2021, to build a mental health index. Methodology: Study with a quantitative approach, retrospective temporality, and secondary source. A crosssectional survey was carried out with the SABAM Project (Health and Mental Well-being of the elderly person from five cities in Colombia in 2021 by its Spanish acronym) database (secondary source), part of the

    Keywords: Mental Health, Hopelessness, resilient coping, self-esteem, self-compassion, Quality of Life, Depression

    Received: 10 Nov 2023; Accepted: 13 May 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Ochoa-Nieto, Benjumea-Gómez, Cardona-Arango, Segura-Cardona, Segura-Cardona and Robledo-Marin. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Doris Cardona-Arango, CES University, Medellín, 500001, Antioquia, Colombia

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