Trastornos adaptativos en pacientes con acné en consulta externa de dermatología del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, Cuenca, año 2011

Abstract

Introduction: Depression and anxiety are common in patients, although often not recognized or treated in patients with diseases affecting the skin, acne being the most prevalent. Acne causes anxiety and depression in patients who suffer in the local population do not have indicators of these disorders in these patients. Objective: To determine the frequency of anxiety and depressive disorders in patients with acne in the dermatology outpatient hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. 2011. Methodology: A cross sectional study of prevalence. The sample was representative and random. The sample size was 350 patients with acne dermatology outpatient Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital. We identified cases of acne patients who had some type of adjustment disorder according to the classification of mental illness Psychriatric American Association (APA) DSM-IV-TR, in terms of adjustment disorders. To collect data we used the Hamilton test anxiety and depression adapted, which were filled by patients who assented to participate in the study. The information was tabulated and analyzed using SPSS 15. Results: The degree of acne 1 was the most prevalent with 47.7% of the population, the overall prevalence of anxiety in patients with some degree of acne was 14.6%, the overall prevalence of depression in the population reached acne, 44, 3%, the average population stood at 18.92 with a standard deviation of 4.61, the sex was most prevalent with 54% female, marital status was the most prevalent single / a with 84% of the study population, 15.7% were married / a and 0.3% in free union. In 80.9% of cases the occupation was student population, while 18.3% and 0.9% work makes no occupation. Acne was more prevalent in younger than in singles in females and students, these differences were statistically significant (p <0.05) except for the sex variable where there were no significant differences. The prevalence of anxiety and depression increase with increasing degree of acne. Conclusions: Anxiety and depression are associated with the presence of acne, the prevalence of these disorders is high in adaptive population affected by acne and the degree of acne is the main determinant of the severity of anxiety and depressive symptoms. KEYWORDS: ACNE, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY.