[Sociocultural factors and the presence of psychopathologies in populations of various localities in Argentina]. / Factores socioculturales y presencia de psicopatologías en poblaciones de distintas localidades argentinas.

This report presents and compares data got from seventeen Argentine communities surveys. The Present State Examination was used for "case-finding"; the CATEGO-ID computations programmes made possible to cluster symptoms in different syndromes as well as to obtain the Index of Definition of the disorders which incorporates a set of rules defining the thresholdes points below which too few symptoms are present to allow a descriptive classification. We found in the communities studied an average of 25.4% of the population without symptoms; 51.4% with some type of psychopathology and 23.3% that can be considered "case". In all the populations women showed a higher percentage of psychopathologies than men (means women: 27.6%; means men: 12.6%). We did not find any statistical association between prevalence and age; only in two communities we did find one between prevalence and familiar structure, being higher in subjects married and rearing children.

Factores socioculturales y presencia de psicopatologias en poblaciones de distintas localidades argentinas. / Sociocultural factors and presence of psychopathologies in populations of different localities of Argentina

En el presente trabajo se analizan y comparan los datos obtenidos en diecisiete localidades ubicadas en distintas zonas de la Republica Argentina. Los mismos se obtuvieron a partir de la administracion de la Present State Examination (PSE), entrevista clinica semiestructurada; el programa de computacion CATEGO-ID posibilita distintos agrupamientos de sintomas en sindromes; ocho indices de definicion ubican a los mismos segun sus grados de intensidad y severidad

Factores socioculturales y presencia de psicopatologías en poblaciones de distintas localidades argentinas. / [Sociocultural factors and the presence of psychopathologies in populations of various localities in Argentina]

This report presents and compares data got from seventeen Argentine communities surveys. The Present State Examination was used for [quot ]case-finding[quot ]; the CATEGO-ID computations programmes made possible to cluster symptoms in different syndromes as well as to obtain the Index of Definition of the disorders which incorporates a set of rules defining the thresholdes points below which too few symptoms are present to allow a descriptive classification. We found in the communities studied an average of 25.4

of the population without symptoms; 51.4

with some type of psychopathology and 23.3

that can be considered [quot ]case[quot ]. In all the populations women showed a higher percentage of psychopathologies than men (means women: 27.6

; means men: 12.6

). We did not find any statistical association between prevalence and age; only in two communities we did find one between prevalence and familiar structure, being higher in subjects married and rearing children.

Factores socioculturales y presencia de psicopatologias en poblaciones de distintas localidades argentinas. / Sociocultural factors and presence of psychopathologies in populations of different localities of Argentina

En el presente trabajo se analizan y comparan los datos obtenidos en diecisiete localidades ubicadas en distintas zonas de la Republica Argentina. Los mismos se obtuvieron a partir de la administracion de la Present State Examination (PSE), entrevista clinica semiestructurada; el programa de computacion CATEGO-ID posibilita distintos agrupamientos de sintomas en sindromes; ocho indices de definicion ubican a los mismos segun sus grados de intensidad y severidad