[Alcohol consumption in women and its relation with the psychopathology in primary health care]
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Darinel Boo-Vera1, Jorge Martínez-Torres, Jorge Eduardo Montesinos-Balboa
1Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico.
Objective:
To determine the frequency of alcohol consumption in women and their relation with symptom of psychopathology.
Methods:
Cross-sectional, correlation descriptive study, in a sample of 374 women between 18 to 65 years that were attended at an unit of family medicine. Sociodemographic variables (age, marital status, occupation, schooling, socioeconomic level) were obtained; Test AUDIT (Alcoholism Use Disorders Identification Test) and Symptom Check List 90 (SCL-90) items to measure psychopathology were also applied. It was realized univariate and bivariate analysis.
Results:
The average age was 34.68 ± 11.84 years, 11.2 % with elevated risk of alcohol consumption; 47.6 % with positive alcohol consumption; 72.4 % with a partner; 85.6 % secondary school and more; 48.7 % occupation housewife. Low and very low socioeconomic level in 21.9 %. The dimensions with majors values were somatitation (0.563), depression (0.526), obsession-compulsions (0.525) and phobic anxiety (0.511). There is an important increase in averages SCL-90 for the patients with elevated risk of alcohol consumption, these differences were significative (p = 0.00005).
Conclusions:
The average of nine dimensions of SCL-90 was greater for patients with elevated risk of alcohol consumption.
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