Citation

Marin. CA, Londoño. N, Juarez. F, Giraldo. F, Ramírez. V. Rev. Agora USB 2010; 10(1): 19-35.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Universidad de San Buenaventura, Departamento de Formación Humana y Bioética)

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Abstract

The objective of this study was to strengthen theprevalence of mental disorders and psycho-socialtensors in outpatients in psychology at SaintBonaventure University, Medellin - Colombia. In thestudy, 106 users took part in it (35.8% men and64% women) with an average age of 26.8 years,who were given the neuropsychiatric internationalinterview (Scheehan and Lecrubier, 1998) and theassessment format of the Axis IV of the DSM-IV-TR(APA, 2002). The disorders of major prevalencewere risk of suicide (28.30%), past majordepression (26.41%) and current major depression(20.75%), depression with melancholy (15.10%),disorders due to the use of non-alcoholic substances(15.09%) , anguish disorder (14.15%) ,generalized anxiety (13.20%), past hypomania(12.26%), social phobia (10.37%), and abuse anddependence of alcohol (10.37%). The relatedpsycho-social tensors were the issues referring to theprimary group (47.8%), the social ambiance(39.1%) and teaching-related problems (13%).

Language: es

Keywords

mental health; mental disorders; prevalence and stress; psycho-social factors