• Nancy Susana Rivas-Molina, Edgar Omar Mireles-Pérez, Janet Margarita Soto-Padilla, Nora Adriana González-Reyes, Tanya Lizbeth Barajas-Serrano, and Juan Carlos Barrera de León.
• Servicio de Pediatría, Unidad Médica de Alta Especialidad (UMAE) Hospital de Pediatría, Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico.
• Gac Med Mex. 2015 Mar 1; 151 (2): 186-91.

UnlabelledObjective: To describe depression levels in school aged children and adolescents with acute leukemia during the treatment.Materials And MethodsThis transversal descriptive study took place during January to September 2012 and included school aged children and adolescents, carriers of acute leukemia, in treatment at a high-ranking specialty hospital. A modified Kovacs questionnaire (C O/) was applied. They were grouped according to presence or absence of depression. Inferential statistics with x2 and Statistical package SPSS 20.0 were used.ResultsForty-six patients were included in the study: with depression n = 43 (94%), without depression n=3 (6%), males n= 32 (70%) and females n=14 (30%), average age 8 years old (7-15). Acute lymphoblast leukemia was the most frequent n=42 patients (91 %). Depression was found in 42 patients (91 "'o), with nine presenting a minor level (21 "'o), 11 a moderate level (26 "/o), and 23 a severe level (53 "/o). Mostly during the consolidation phase, 30 patients (70"/o) patients with no relapses showed a higher incidence of depression, 23 (54 "/o) vs. with relapses 20 (47"/o) (p = 0.870); the majority had no family history of depression 41 (95 "/o) vs. 2 (5"/o) (p = 0.017).ConclusionsWe found a high percentage of severe level depression, which affected mostly male patients, suffering a relapse during the consolidation treatment phase.

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