Citation

Florenzano U. R, Trebilcok G. JJ, Middleton C. T, Estay E. P, Nuñez C. P, Soto M. E, Leighton G. C. Trastor. ánimo 2009; 5(2): 100-108.

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(Copyright © 2009)

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Abstract

With the objective of determining prognostic factors, we analyzed a database of 751 cases treated at the Affective Disorders Unit, Psychiatric Service, Hospital del Salvador, that fulfilled the following three conditions: female gender, suicidal risk (ideation or attempt), and three measurements of the Outcome Questionnaire (OQ 45-2) of Lambert et al. (M1 at intake, M2 early during treatment, and M3 at three to six months of treatment). Among the 751 cases between the years 2004 and 2008, 583 were women. Among them, 161 had three measurements of OQ 45.2, and 68 had suicidal risk. We compared this sample, that represents 9 percent of women requesting treatment at the Unit, with the women that fulfilled the criteria and were hospitalized during the same time. Using the methodology suggested by Jacobson and Truax, we compared the socio-demographic, clinical and outcome characteristics of the groups classified with a significant clinical change, improvement, no change and worsening.

Language: es

Keywords

Suicide; Affective disorder; suicidio; evaluación de resultados; outcome research; Trastorno afectivo