Abstract
Objective: to identify the prevalence of depression and family support amongadolescents in the city of Montes Claros -MG. Materials and methods: this is a descriptive research with a quantitative and cross-sectionalapproach. The study included 71 adolescents, both sexes, students from a public state school and a private school. For data collection, a sociodemographic questionnaire was used, thenBeck's Depression Inventory and APGAR Questionnaire for family support assessmentwere applied. A descriptive analysis of the data was performed with real and absolute frequency values, in addition to the Mann-Whitney U test. Results: most of those evaluatedadolescents(75%) did not presentdepression levels (75%) and there was a high presence (65.3%) of family support;there was no statistically significant difference when comparing the variables surveyed betweensexes and schools. Conclusion: at the end,it was possible to infer that there seems to be a positive relationship between greater family support and lower levels or risk of depression.
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