title: [Histrionic personality disorder in a psychiatry department at a general hospital].
abstract: The personality disturbances imply problem within the psychiatric assistance, both for its difficult delimitation and classification and for the limited results and bad use obtained from therapeutic resources. We studied 402 patients psychiatric service of a general hospital over a period approximately 2 years, 70 (17.5%) were diagnosed DSM-III with Personality disturbances: 44 females (62.9%) and 26 males (37.1%), of an age group between 18 and 67 years old. The most frequent diagnosis was of histrionic of the personality followed by unspecific and border-line. Within the histrionic disturbance of the personality there was a clear predominance of women, whereas in the others types, no significant differences were observed.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psiquiatría, Hospital de la Princesa, de Madrid.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Abril
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Valle
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moreno
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: de Miguel
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Molina
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006677:Histrionic Personality Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D013030:Spain; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Trastorno histriónico de la personalidad en un Servicio de Psiquiatría de Hospital General.