Journal of Depression and Anxiety
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Lücke Caroline

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  Somatic Illness and Hospitalization as Triggers for Psychiatric Disorders of the Affective Spectrum: Results of a Large Study on Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry
  Author(s): Lücke Caroline, Gschossmann Jürgen M, Bachmann Katharina, Sörös Peter, Stephanie Klügel, Alexandra Philipsen and Müller Helge HLücke Caroline, Gschossmann Jürgen M, Bachmann Katharina, Sörös Peter, Stephanie Klügel, Alexandra Philipsen and Müller Helge H
  
  Objective: The hospitalization of patients for medical reasons potentially generates enormous psychological stress and may evoke psychiatric pathology of the affective/anxiety-spectrum. It is well known that affective disorders are very common diagnoses among somatically ill patients. Here, we further investigated the characteristics of depression and anxiety in hospital patients by studying data from a large sample of psychiatric consultations of medical inpatients. Methods: In a prospective, observational design we collected and analyzed data from 890 psychiatric consultations of somatically ill hospital patients, who required psychiatric assessment by consultation-liaison services due to acute psychopathology. Only data that were collected as part of the routine psychiatric care were processed for this study. Patients were seen in two German hospitals, Klinikum Forchheim and Univer.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1044.1000276

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