[Clinical and epidemiological study of depression and aggressiveness in a rural population center]

In a rural community of the province of Salamanca we studied the magnitude and distribution of depression and aggressiveness in a psychopathological study, following a previously established protocol of methods that includes the Hamilton Scale of Psychiatric Evaluation, the EPI Personality Questionnaire, Instrument I for the measurement of aggressiveness of Ledesma et al., and Pöldinger's Evaluation Scale for the risk of suicide (for suicidal tendency?). Forty-three depressive patients were found, forming 7.46% of the whole population studied (6.29% of the male population and 8.75% of the female one). We also studied the characteristics profiles of the depressive patients, the relationship with being firstborn and the psychiatric history and suicide cases in direct family members, establishing comparisons with a control group of non-depressive subjects.