Sociocultural factors and the presence of psychopathologies in populations of various localities in Argentina
Aszkenazi, M.; Casullo, M.M.
Acta Psiquiatrica y Psicologica de America Latina 30(1): 11-20
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-6896 PMID: 6741584 Document Number: 224232
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.