Primary care patients demonstrated improvements in depressive and anxious symptoms throughout BA-based teletherapy. BA teletherapy is feasible and associated with improved outcomes as an adjunct or alternative intervention for primary care providers and in low-income, charity populations.​.

Depression and anxiety are the most common psychiatric diseases among the elderly, and frequently go without diagnosis and treatment. However, evidence regarding the prevalence of depression related to the diagnostic systems utilized and the sociocultural variations in the different communities investigated (rural-urban) is contradictory. This study aims to evaluate the prevalence of depression in a rural area in the south of Catalonia, analysing the different age groups, identifying the causal factors of depression and determining whether there are gender differences. The descriptive and quantitative study includes 157 women and 160 men. The qualitative study evaluates 14 men and 52 women diagnosed with depression. Our results indicate a high risk of depression in elderly participants of our small rural community. Widowers suffer more depression than widows and the loneliness, illness, and task of caregiver were predictive variables for depression in these elderly men. The loss of the ability to perform activities of daily living associated with ageing has a greater effect on depression disorders in men than in women.

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The confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought with various social, economic and health problems, significantly impacting the psychological state of people around the world; therefore, the present study aimed to analyze the correlation between the variables of depression, anxiety and stress with family functioning in university men and women, through a non-probabilistic sampling for convenience 256 students of the bachelor’s degree were included, of which 176 were women and 80 men, in a range of 17 to 30 years, to whom the DASS-21 scale and the Instrument Perception of Family Functioning FF-SIL were applied. It was found that there is a significant and negative correlation between the variables studied, which means that the higher the family functioning, lower will be levels of depression, anxiety and stress; in addition, significant differences were found between men and women for the anxiety and stress variables.