Manifestations cliniques et facteurs declenchants de la depression a Lome, Togo

Abstract

Objectives: Objectives of this study have been to determine clinic particularities of the reactive depression in the Togolese context and to identify factors associated.

Patients and methods: It has been a retrospective study on five years realized into the clinique de
psychiatrie et de psychologie médicale of Chu- Campus of Lomé. Have been included in the study processed patients in the course of the period
Results: reactive depression has represented 47.22% of depressive disorder. Patients aged from 20 to 49 years have represented 88.23%, women 67.06%. Affective factors (62.35%) and socio-economic factors
(37.65%) have constituted the main releases. Multiple somatic symptoms have been in the forefront, while attempts of suicides were feebly observed.
Conclusions: there is clinic sameness between reactive depression in Lomé and cases described in the literature.