PTSD in mental health outpatient settings: highly prevalent and under-recognized
da Silva, Herika C; Furtado da Rosa, Maísa M; Berger, William; Luz, Mariana P; Mendlowicz, Mauro; Coutinho, Evandro S. F; Portella, Carla M; Marques, Pamela I. S; Mograbi, Daniel C; Figueira, Ivan; Ventura, Paula.
Braz. J. Psychiatry (São Paulo, 1999, Impr.)
; 41(3): 213-217, May-June 2019. tab
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| LILACS | ID: biblio-1011498
Objectives:
To estimate the current prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the diagnosis rate of this disorder ascertained by psychiatrists in training.Methods:
We interviewed 200 adults under treatment in a university mental health outpatient clinic. The PTSD diagnoses obtained using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID-IV) were compared with the patients' medical records.Results:
Forty-one patients (20.5%) were diagnosed with current PTSD, but only one of them (2.4%) had previously received this diagnosis. This study confirms that although PTSD is highly prevalent among mental health outpatients, it is remarkably underdiagnosed in teaching hospitals.Conclusions:
These findings suggest that psychiatrists in training may be failing to investigate traumatic events and their consequences and strongly indicate that trauma-related issues should be given more prominence in psychiatry curricula and psychiatrist training.
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