ABSTRACT
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.
Subject(s)
Anxiety Disorders/epidemiology , Depressive Disorder/epidemiology , Stress, Psychological/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Argentina , Culture , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Psychiatric Status Rating Scales , Sampling Studies , Sex Factors , Socioeconomic FactorsABSTRACT
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
Subject(s)
Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Humans , Male , Female , Anxiety Disorders , Depressive Disorder , Interview, Psychological , Stress, Psychological , ArgentinaABSTRACT
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.
ABSTRACT
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
Subject(s)
Adolescent , Adult , Middle Aged , Humans , Male , Female , Comparative Study , Depressive Disorder , Anxiety Disorders , Interview, Psychological , Stress, Psychological , ArgentinaABSTRACT
El presente es un informe sobre un trabajo de campo realizado como parte del Programa de Investigaciones sobre Epidemiologia Psiquiatrica que dirige el Dr. Fernando Pages Larraya. El objetivo del mismo es el estudio de la prevalencia de patologias mentales en una ciudad del Area Etnografica del Valle Inferior del rio Chubut: Trelew. Para el "case finding" se utilizo la Present State Examination, entrevista clinica semiestructurada ya empleada en trabajos de campo similares realizados en otras localidades de la Republica Argentina. Es el primero de su tipo que se lleva a cabo en la region de la Patagonia
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Health Surveys , Mental DisordersABSTRACT
El presente es un informe sobre un trabajo de campo realizado como parte del Programa de Investigaciones sobre Epidemiologia Psiquiatrica que dirige el Dr. Fernando Pages Larraya. El objetivo del mismo es el estudio de la prevalencia de patologias mentales en una ciudad del Area Etnografica del Valle Inferior del rio Chubut: Trelew. Para el "case finding" se utilizo la Present State Examination, entrevista clinica semiestructurada ya empleada en trabajos de campo similares realizados en otras localidades de la Republica Argentina. Es el primero de su tipo que se lleva a cabo en la region de la Patagonia
Subject(s)
Humans , Male , Female , Mental Disorders , Health SurveysABSTRACT
The survey was carried out in 1979 in Carmen de Patagones, is the first of a number of studies planned as a part of the National Program of Psychiatric Epidemiology. Patagones is the southern and largest county of the province of Buenos Aires (area: 13.431,93 sq.km;population: 21.121) Economically the population can be characterized as a well-off rural one, with farming and cows rearing as the main sources of income. For case-finding we used the full ninth version of the Present State Examination. It has been translated into a dozen languages and it was used by the WHO in the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia. One hundred and thirty house units were drawn at random from the registers of the city of Carmen de Patagones. Each house was visited by trained interviewers form the Research Team, and adults (aged 17 to 60) were asked if they would be willing to participate in the survey of health problems in the area. Frequency of positive responses obtained for each syndrome is presented in Table I. All the data were subjected to statistical analysis and levels of significance were got.
Subject(s)
Mental Disorders/epidemiology , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Argentina , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Sex Factors , Socioeconomic FactorsABSTRACT
Este trabajo fue realizado entre los meses de agosto de 1979 y julio de 1980 como parte del Programa de Epidemiologia Psiquiatrica que el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) desarrolla en forma conjunta con la Direccion Nacional de Salud Mental, bajo la direccion del Dr. Fernando Pages Larraya. Se eligio el partido de Patagones para llevar a cabo este estudio piloto, pues brinda posibilidades de estudiar una poblacion relativamente estable y cuenta con un importante centro de atencion psiquiatrica
Subject(s)
Community Psychiatry , Mental Disorders , Health SurveysABSTRACT
The survey was carried out in 1979 in Carmen de Patagones, is the first of a number of studies planned as a part of the National Program of Psychiatric Epidemiology. Patagones is the southern and largest county of the province of Buenos Aires (area: 13.431,93 sq.km;population: 21.121) Economically the population can be characterized as a well-off rural one, with farming and cows rearing as the main sources of income. For case-finding we used the full ninth version of the Present State Examination. It has been translated into a dozen languages and it was used by the WHO in the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia. One hundred and thirty house units were drawn at random from the registers of the city of Carmen de Patagones. Each house was visited by trained interviewers form the Research Team, and adults (aged 17 to 60) were asked if they would be willing to participate in the survey of health problems in the area. Frequency of positive responses obtained for each syndrome is presented in Table I. All the data were subjected to statistical analysis and levels of significance were got.
ABSTRACT
Este trabajo fue realizado entre los meses de agosto de 1979 y julio de 1980 como parte del Programa de Epidemiologia Psiquiatrica que el Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) desarrolla en forma conjunta con la Direccion Nacional de Salud Mental, bajo la direccion del Dr. Fernando Pages Larraya. Se eligio el partido de Patagones para llevar a cabo este estudio piloto, pues brinda posibilidades de estudiar una poblacion relativamente estable y cuenta con un importante centro de atencion psiquiatrica
Subject(s)
Mental Disorders , Community Psychiatry , Health SurveysABSTRACT
This paper is an outline of a wide program that is currently under development in the large territory of Argentina. The Director of the Program is Dr. Fernando Pagés Larraya; it is supported by the National Council of Scientific Researches (CONICET) and the National Board of Mental Health. The general purpose of the program is to study the prevalence of mental disorders in different ethnographic areas within the country. Epidemiology allows the forecasting of disease occurence. A research work this area may be qualified "effective" if it provides useful data for prevention programs. Therefore, it is necessary that researches and professional responsibles of Mental Health Governmental decissions work together. This rapprochment is being attempted in developing the Argentine research program. It has a cross-cultural approach. It can be called "a way of thinking" as opposed to a precise methodology. A considerable variety of research tools are being used, depending on the specific purposes and the characteristics of the ethnographic areas. One of the main difficulties in choosing a technique for "case-finding" is uncertainty about where to place the "cut-off point" between presence and absence of illness. In this program the Present State Examination (PSE) is used in population surveys of large urban centers. It is a semi-structured interview that has been extensively tested. In small rural communities, the work is done using "key-informants" and applying the snow-ball sample technique. One specific purpose of the research is the study of the modal personality structure in each ethnographic area, formulated in terms of the Holtzman Inkblot Test. The paper shows the relationships between purposes, research tools and responsible professionals. There is hardly time or surplus intellectual energy for polemic and alienation between clinicians and social scientists. Theories, methodologies, research data and prevention programs have not developed harmoniously. We need to carry out research work not divorced from Public Health responsible authorities, in order to avoid that useful data from Epidemiological Studies will not be used in prevention programs.
Subject(s)
Mental Disorders/epidemiology , Argentina , Cross-Cultural Comparison , Cultural Characteristics , Ethnicity/psychology , Humans , Personality , Research DesignABSTRACT
This paper is an outline of a wide program that is currently under development in the large territory of Argentina. The Director of the Program is Dr. Fernando Pagés Larraya; it is supported by the National Council of Scientific Researches (CONICET) and the National Board of Mental Health. The general purpose of the program is to study the prevalence of mental disorders in different ethnographic areas within the country. Epidemiology allows the forecasting of disease occurence. A research work this area may be qualified [quot ]effective[quot ] if it provides useful data for prevention programs. Therefore, it is necessary that researches and professional responsibles of Mental Health Governmental decissions work together. This rapprochment is being attempted in developing the Argentine research program. It has a cross-cultural approach. It can be called [quot ]a way of thinking[quot ] as opposed to a precise methodology. A considerable variety of research tools are being used, depending on the specific purposes and the characteristics of the ethnographic areas. One of the main difficulties in choosing a technique for [quot ]case-finding[quot ] is uncertainty about where to place the [quot ]cut-off point[quot ] between presence and absence of illness. In this program the Present State Examination (PSE) is used in population surveys of large urban centers. It is a semi-structured interview that has been extensively tested. In small rural communities, the work is done using [quot ]key-informants[quot ] and applying the snow-ball sample technique. One specific purpose of the research is the study of the modal personality structure in each ethnographic area, formulated in terms of the Holtzman Inkblot Test. The paper shows the relationships between purposes, research tools and responsible professionals. There is hardly time or surplus intellectual energy for polemic and alienation between clinicians and social scientists. Theories, methodologies, research data and prevention programs have not developed harmoniously. We need to carry out research work not divorced from Public Health responsible authorities, in order to avoid that useful data from Epidemiological Studies will not be used in prevention programs.
ABSTRACT
This paper is an outline of a wide program that is currently under development in the large territory of Argentina. The Director of the Program is Dr. Fernando Pagés Larraya; it is supported by the National Council of Scientific Researches (CONICET) and the National Board of Mental Health. The general purpose of the program is to study the prevalence of mental disorders in different ethnographic areas within the country. Epidemiology allows the forecasting of disease occurence. A research work this area may be qualified [quot ]effective[quot ] if it provides useful data for prevention programs. Therefore, it is necessary that researches and professional responsibles of Mental Health Governmental decissions work together. This rapprochment is being attempted in developing the Argentine research program. It has a cross-cultural approach. It can be called [quot ]a way of thinking[quot ] as opposed to a precise methodology. A considerable variety of research tools are being used, depending on the specific purposes and the characteristics of the ethnographic areas. One of the main difficulties in choosing a technique for [quot ]case-finding[quot ] is uncertainty about where to place the [quot ]cut-off point[quot ] between presence and absence of illness. In this program the Present State Examination (PSE) is used in population surveys of large urban centers. It is a semi-structured interview that has been extensively tested. In small rural communities, the work is done using [quot ]key-informants[quot ] and applying the snow-ball sample technique. One specific purpose of the research is the study of the modal personality structure in each ethnographic area, formulated in terms of the Holtzman Inkblot Test. The paper shows the relationships between purposes, research tools and responsible professionals. There is hardly time or surplus intellectual energy for polemic and alienation between clinicians and social scientists. Theories, methodologies, research data and prevention programs have not developed harmoniously. We need to carry out research work not divorced from Public Health responsible authorities, in order to avoid that useful data from Epidemiological Studies will not be used in prevention programs.
