Introduction:

Population aging is currently a serious universal health concern.

Objective:

To relate family functioning with anxiety and depression in older adults.

Methods:

A correlational and descriptive study of case series was carried out in the health area II of Cienfuegos, in the period from January to May 2019. The study universe was made up of 12 774 older adults from the health area II of Cienfuegos. Simple random sampling (n=50) was used. The instruments used to collect the information were patient interview, the Zung and Conde’s Autoscale for Depression, the State-Trait Anxiety Test, and the Family Functioning Perception Test (FF-SIL). The statistical analysis of the information was carried out using the statistical package SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). As descriptive statistics, absolute frequency and the percentage were used.

Results:

Unigenerational (36%), small (62%) and nuclear (64%) families prevailed. Moderately functional families predominated (60%). Older adults presented anxiety at medium and high levels (70% and 30%, respectively). In addition, 76% presented moderate depression. Regarding the relationship between family functioning with anxiety and depression, values ​​lower than the 0.05 level of significance were obtained.

Conclusions:

Among the older adults included in the study, there was no relationship of family functioning with anxiety and depression.

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