OBJECTIVES To determine kinds of psychiatric morbidity among a sample of stable hypertensive outpatients in a teaching hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study of 260 enrolled outpatients. Psychiatric morbidity was assessed using a 2-stage evaluation method with the General Health Questionnaire Version 12 (GHQ-12) and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) to assess fo...

Infection with Toxocara may affect the central nervous system. A high seroprevalence of Toxocara infection has been reported in psychiatric patients. To the best of our knowledge, there is no previous report about an association of Toxocara infection with suicide attempts. Therefore, we sought to determine whether Toxocara exposure is associated with suicide attempts in psychiatric patients. We...

This study addresses problems arising with informed consent for long-term maintenance pharmacotherapy. Obtaining patient consent to neuroleptic treatment, with the risk of tardive dyskinesia, has raised questions about long-term recall and the competence of psychiatric patients as a special population. The subjects were 32 adult outpatients, 16 were followed in the psychiatric clinic and 16 in ...

Psychiatric patients frequently make somatic complaints which are not related to physical pathology, but this is often not fully appreciated by medical practitioners other than psychia trists. Dowling and Knox (1964) have shown that depressive patients are often diagnosed as physically ill, especially if they have had a notable physical illness in the previous five years. Stoeckle and Davidson ...

BACKGROUND Thyroid dysfunction is frecuent in psychiatric outpatients and in the general Chilean population but there is no information about the prevalence of thyroid diseases in Chilean psychiatric inpatients. AIM To retrospectively assess the frequency of thyroidal diseases in psychiatric inpatients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Clinical charts and thyroid assessment of 241 psychiatric inpatient...