Disturbios depressivos em um centro de atenção primaria : prevalencia momentanea e analise do discurso dos pacientes

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

1991

RESUMO

The aims of this study were to investigate the paint prevalence of depressive disorders in a Primar Health Care Centre and the kind of speech used by these patients to express their complaints. The patients were a consecutive series of males or famales attending the Centre, aged between 18 and 60 years and of lower social-economic and cultural background. The methodological procedures were as follows: the researcher accompanied the General Practitioner s (GP) consultation and took notes of his usual procedure (doctor-patient relationship, interviewing, laboratory tests, prescription, referall, ete.) towards the patients. The GP did not know the aim of the study. After the consultation, the patients were sent to the next-door room where the researcher applied the Standardized Assessment of Depresslve Disorders (SADD/WHO; Sartorius et aI., 1983) to them. To those "suspected" of depressive disorder by means of the SADD, the researcher applied the Zung Self-Rating Oepressian Scale (Zung &Durham, 1965). The subjects who had a total score >= 40 on Zung Scale were considered as depressives and hence were submitted to a "free" interview for five minutes. This interview was recorded and care was taken for not asking questions that could hint at a symptom, e.g., it was not allowed to ask "how does your appetite look like", "what about your sleep?" and so forth, but rather neutral questions were made, such as "what brought you here"? Note: The complete abstract is available with the full electronic digital thesis or dissertations.

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psicolinguistica psiquiatria dependencia mental

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