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Psychiatric Diagnoses in Ulcerative Colitis

A Controlled Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

G. Magni ,
G. Bernasconi ,
P. Mauro ,
A. D'Odorico ,
G. C Sturniolo ,
G. Canton  and
A. Martin
G. Magni*
Affiliation:
Wyeth-Ayerst, European Clinical Research and Development, Paris, France, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Padua School of Medicine, Padua, Italy
G. Bernasconi
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Padua School of Medicine
P. Mauro
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Padua School of Medicine
A. D'Odorico
Affiliation:
Department of Gastroenterology, University of Padua School of Medicine
G. C Sturniolo
Affiliation:
Department of Gastroenterology, University of Padua School of Medicine
G. Canton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Vicenza Hospital, Vicenza, Italy
A. Martin
Affiliation:
Department of Gastroenterology, University of Padua School of Medicine
*
* Wyeth-Ayerst, European Clinical Research and Development, 6, Rue Clisson, F-75013, Paris, France
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Abstract

Fifty patients with UC and 50 matched controls with urolithiasis were interviewed with the SADS (lifetime version) and completed the SCL–90. According to information given during the SADS, there was a history of psychiatric disturbance in 11 UC patients (22%) and 8 controls (16%). At the time of the interview a psychiatric disturbance was present in 31 UC patients (62%) and four controls (8%), the most frequent diagnoses in the former being minor depression and generalised anxiety disorder. Patients with UC scored significantly higher than the controls on all the different SCL–90 subscales.

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 158 , Issue 3 , March 1991 , pp. 413 - 415
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991 

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