Objective: To analyze the association of major depressive disorder (MDD) with the presence of chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCD) and multimorbidity in Brazilian adults, stratified by sex, and to examine the interaction between sex and CNCD in association with TDM. Methods: Based on a sample of 65,803 adults from the National Health Survey of 2019, the prevalence of MDD (≥ 10 points of the PHQ-9 instrument...
Objective: To analyze the association of depression with various health behaviors and to verify if the associations differ according to gender or income. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study based on data from 65,803 Brazilian adults (18-59 years old) from the National Health Survey, conducted in 2019. The presence of depression was evaluated using PHQ-9. The prevalence of smoking, ...