RESUMO
Overall 502 workers of a scientific-industrial association were examined in order to study the prevalence and structure of affective disorders. Anxiety appeared the most frequently occurring disorder (289 subjects); depression was revealed in 175, and elements of apathy in 94 persons. In 131 cases, the conditions was assessed as depressive, with the level of depression being subclinical in the majority of them. The structure of depressive disorders, their relation to the demographic characteristics of the examined are considered in detail. The necessity of more active identification and prevention of the " pre-nosological " forms of depression is discussed.
Assuntos
Depressão/diagnóstico , Transtorno Depressivo/diagnóstico , Doenças Profissionais/psicologia , Pesquisadores/psicologia , Estresse Psicológico/psicologia , Adulto , Depressão/classificação , Depressão/etiologia , Transtorno Depressivo/classificação , Transtorno Depressivo/etiologia , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Moscou , Doenças Profissionais/diagnóstico , Doenças Profissionais/etiologia , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Estresse Psicológico/complicaçõesRESUMO
A total of 544 staff members of the scientific industrial association were subjected to non-randomized examination. The presentation and structure of border-line disorders were studied as correlated to the age, sex, familial status, educational level, occupation, and personality structure. Three groups have been distinguished: (1) conditional norm; (2) neurotic disorders; and (3) affective disorders. Correlations between psychopathological and somatic disorders have been traced in all the groups.
