Plata GM, Flores CL, Curiel HO, Juárez OJR, Rosas BJV

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 157-162
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ABSTRACT

Background: In the period of time that doctors graduating from the Faculty to integrate into the workplace face a process of constant adaptation and learning has implications for personal and social education that can generate at certain times, periods of anxiety, fear, insecurity and stress that can lead to disorders such as depression or anxiety. When entering a specialty in a hospital, living a number of changes such as sleep habits, food and perception that will define the stay of the physicians. Depression and burnout are highly prevalent among resident’s worldwide, with rates of 7% to 56% and 41% and 76%, respectively.
Objectives: To investigate in a group of residents from different specialties of Hospital Regional 1° de Octubre, the existence of depressive or anxious disorders, its causes and to send residents to psychological therapy, in case of evidence of any of them.
Participants and method: Resident physicians were invited to participate in this descriptive study, conducted from May 1 to October 31, 2010, only accepted the invitation resident doctors of the specialties of Internal Medicine, Emergency Room, Intensive Care and Anesthesiology. The selection criteria were: participation in voluntary and resident physicians to be in effect during the study period, for which no degree was important to residents. The instruments applied were: the scales of depression and Hamilton anxiety. Residents with anxiety or depression were send to the service of psychology or psychiatry to receive appropriate treatment.
Results: In Anesthesiology service five residents (50%) had depression and anxiety, followed by intensive therapy where three physicians (34%) had the two conditions, showing greater stability of internal medicine residents, where only two (17%) have coexistence.
Conclusions: The prevalence of anxiety and depressive disorder occurs more in younger residents of the first degree of medical residency, occurring mainly in women. In the service of Anesthesiology the two conditions were present in a half of its residents. While in the Internal Medicine Department pathological evidence was lesser.

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