Mental disorder in pre and post menopause women

According the World Health Organization (WHO), the common mental disorder is more elevated in women than men mainly in the climacteric period, between 40 to 50 years and lasting until menopause. One from four people will develop some kind of mental disorder during life. It was realized an epidemiological research, of transversal character, quantitative and descriptive.It was used the socioeconomic questionnaire to identify the women profile that were in climacteric period, consisting of age, marital status, incoming, social class, education level, scholarity type, work. The Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventory and Lipp Stress Inventory were used to identify the prevalence of mental disorders. It was analyzed 147 women being 79 in the premenopausal and had mean age of 54 (3) years.Most of both groups was classified as class D.Both groups showed a high prevalence of mental disorder being 52 in premenopausal and 55 post menopauses confirming that the hormonal variation period caused by climacteric is important to the emergence of psychologic pathologies. There was a high prevalence of depression in the studied women with a very small difference between the groups. Once they will be spent years in this life phase, it is necessary to adopted strategies to minimize this commitment in this population because the deleterious effect of this disorder in the individual life.