| dc.creator | Fullerton U,Claudio | |
| dc.creator | Florenzano U,Ramón | |
| dc.creator | Acuña R,Julia | |
| dc.date | 2000-07-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-29T19:34:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-29T19:34:11Z | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-98872000000700004 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/206069 | |
| dc.description | Background: As a part of the World Health Organization multicentric study of emotional disorders in general medical care, we studied patients who had a chronic medical ailment and a psychiatric disorder, according to ICD-10. Aim: To report the prevalence of patients with coexisting medical and psychiatric disorders. Patients and methods: All patients, aged 15 to 65 years old, consulting in primary care outpatient clinics, were interviewed using a general health questionnaire. In a second phase, patients with chronic medical disorders were subjected to the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Instrument. Results: Sixty nine percent of interviewed Chilean patients had a medical condition, compared to 60,3% of the global study group. Of these, 66% had a coexisting psychiatric diagnosis, compared to 31% of the global study group. The most frequent diagnoses in the Chilean sample were somatization disorders in 25%, harmful alcohol use in 14%, depression in 35% and hypocondriasis in 6%. There was a higher prevalence and odds ratio for psychiatric diagnoses among Chilean women. Conclusions: Patients with chronic medical disorders should be considered a high risk group for the coexistence of psychiatric disturbances. (Rev Méd Chile 2000; 128: 729-34). | |
| dc.format | text/html | |
| dc.language | es | |
| dc.publisher | Sociedad Médica de Santiago | |
| dc.relation | 10.4067/S0034-98872000000700004 | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.source | Revista médica de Chile v.128 n.7 2000 | |
| dc.subject | Chronic disease | |
| dc.subject | Psychiatric status rating scales | |
| dc.subject | psycological tests | |
| dc.title | Comorbilidad de enfermedades médicas crónicas y trastornos psiquiátricos en una población de consultantes en el nivel primario de atención | |
