Manifestations cliniques et facteurs declenchants de la depression a Lome, Togo

Objectives : Objectives of this study have been to determine clinic particularities of the reactive depression in the Togolese context and to identify factors associated. Patients and methods : It has been a retrospective study on five years realized into the clinique de psychiatrie et de psychologie medicale of Chu- Campus of Lome. Have been included in the study processed patients in the course of the period Results : reactive depression has represented 47.22% of depressive disorder. Patients aged from 20 to 49 years have represented 88.23%, women 67.06%. Affective factors (62.35%) and socio-economic factors (37.65%) have constituted the main releases. Multiple somatic symptoms have been in the forefront, while attempts of suicides were feebly observed. Conclusions: there is clinic sameness between reactive depression in Lome and cases described in the literature.