Profile and intensity of depression in prelocutive profoundly deaf people in Mexico

The theoretical review shows that there is agreement among authors regarding the increased vulnerability of the deaf population to psychological problems (Orihuela, Conde, Vargas, Martínez and Franco, 2000). Speaking specifically of enforcement, recent research has found higher rates of moderate and severe depression in deaf adolescents, youth and adults, as compared with their hearing peers (Leigh and Anthony, 2001; Estrada, Beyebach, Delgado and Freire, 2008). Research in Mexico has yielded similar results (Ruiz, 2009), finding a higher rate of moderate and severe depression when compared with other mexican listeners. We even detected the possibility of a depression profile different between deaf and hearing, because the deaf Mexicans have a higher number of somatic behavioral symptoms such as changes in appetite, tiredness, fatigue, loss of interest, crying, irritability, loss of energy and loss of interest in sex, when compared to Mexican listeners. All these findings invite us to reflect on the following questions: Why is this difference in symptomatic profile? Are deaf more concrete thinkers , to name a few. © 2011 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

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