Prevalencia de trastornos mentales y estresores psicosociales en usuarios de consulta externa en psicología de la Univesidad de San Buenaventura, Medellín-Colombia

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 and dependence of alcohol (10.37%). The related psycho-social tensors were the issues referring to the primary group (47.8%), the social ambiance(39.1%) and teaching-related problems (13%).

Keywords

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