Abstract
El objetivo de este estudio descriptivo correlacional, era explorar la relación que existe entre la depresión y la atención en pacientes con traumatismo craneoencefálico leve (TCEL). Se aplicaron las ediciones en castellano del Test de Colores y Palabras de Stroop y del Inventario de Depresión de Beck-II a una muestra de 64 participantes hispanoparlantes entre 19 y 61 años, del Neurobehavioral Institute of Miami que asistieron entre junio 2003 y junio 2004, y a familiares. Se aplicaron pruebas t, chi cuadrado y correlación de Pearson de la estadística descriptiva. Se encontró que en los controles saludables no hay una relación significativa entre depresión y atención, mientras que en los pacientes con TCEL se identificó una relación en la condición color-palabraThis journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.