Prevalence of Depressive Disorder in the Postoperative Period of Bariatric Surgery

Depression is defined as a mood disorder, which presents as main characteristics changes in sleep, appetite, loss of interest in pleasurable activities, depressed mood, among others. Obesity is characterized as a chronic disease, of not yet fully clarified etiology, characterized by the accumulation of fat in adipose tissue, being able to negatively affect the metabolic system as a whole, compromising the health of the individual. The aim of this study was to conduct a systematic review on the prevalence of depressive disorder in the postoperative period of bariatric surgery. For this review, searches were performed in the following databases: Pub Med, SCIELO, LILACS, Elsevier and Embase. The following descriptors were used in Portuguese and English: depressive disorder, postoperative, bariatric surgery. We found 630 articles with the descriptors mentioned, of which after the selection process there were 46 articles for full reading, of which 10 met all inclusion criteria. Data collection was restricted to clinical research conducted with humans of both genders from 2010. The study concluded that there is a high demand of patients who underwent bariatric surgery with depression in the postoperative period.