Mental disorders have a high prevalence among people who seek care in health facilities for physical ailments without being properly identified and treated. The Self Report Questionnaire (SRQ) has been designed to detect possible cases and is widely used in the primary care field. Objective: To establish the predictive power of items of the SRQ-27 in the identification of depressive and anxiety disorders in users of health establishments in Lima. Method: The study utilized data of the sample of 10 885 people from the Epidemiological Study of Mental Health in health establishments of Metropolitan Lima 2015. The responses to the SRQ-27 and its relationship with the presence of anxiety and depression, established by the Mini Neuropsychiatric Interview, were analyzed using descriptive statistics, association tests, and AUC-ROC analysis of each item. Results: Two items referring to “fe...

Teniendo en consideración las tendencias poblacionales de aumento del segmento de adultos mayores asi como la prevalencia de trastornos demenciales, se planteó como objetivo la adaptación del Mini-Mental State Examination, instrumento ampliamente utilizado en la atención clínica y en la investigación clínica y epidemiológica. Se aplicó el MMSE a tres muestras: 345 sujetos sanos, 50 pacientes con diagnóstico de demencia de tipo Alzheimer y 45 pacientes con depresión mayor, todos mayores de 55 años. Se estudiaron ítems alternativos para ser utilizados con sujetos analfabetos, que no mostraron ser adecuados estadísticamente. La consistencia interna de la prueba fue de 0,62 con el alfa de Cronbach. Se analizó la validez de constructo, aislándose cinco factores. En la comparación con un criterio externo de deterioro, casos con diagnóstico de demencia, se encontró más adecu...

Objectives: Exploration and eventual establishment of an association between school bullying and risky eating behaviors (REB) in adolescents from Lima Metropolitan Area and Callao. Materials and methods: Observational, cross-sectional, and analytical study, based on data from the Epidemiological Study conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health in 2012. The sample included 1,490 adolescents aged 12 to 17. Scores from the bullying scale and the REB Questionnaire, along with sociodemographic variables, were used. Bivariate analyses were conducted to evaluate the association between bullying, REB, and sociodemographic variables. A binary logistic regression model was proposed to explain REB, supplemented by Odds Ratios (OR) and prevalence data. Results: The observed annual prevalence rates were 43.8% for bullying and 23.5% for REB. Bullying showed a significant association with pov...

Objective: Identify in the adult population of Metropolitan Lima the prevalence, access and factors associated with the main mental disorders (MD) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology: Cross-sectional, correlational study in a probabilistic, two-stage sample of 1823 adults (≥18 years old), interviewed by telephone. Instruments: sociodemographic file and housing characteristics; Questionnaire on COVID-19 Experiences; the MINI International Neuropsychiatric Interview ICD-10 Version; the MINI Suicide Risk Scale; the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index; the Perceived Stress Scale; Psychosocial Functioning Brief Scale (based on suggested areas of the WHO DAS-S); Questionnaire on Access to Health Services; Mezzich Quality of Life Index; Diener's Life Satisfaction Scale; Block's Ego-Resilience Scale; and an Abbreviated Ad-hoc Questionnaire on Domestic Violence. Analysis used were the correcte...