title: [Sociocultural factors and the presence of psychopathologies in populations of various localities in Argentina].
abstract: This report presents and compares data got from seventeen Argentine communities surveys. The Present State Examination was used for "case-finding"; the CATEGO-ID computations programmes made possible to cluster symptoms in different syndromes as well as to obtain the Index of Definition of the disorders which incorporates a set of rules defining the thresholdes points below which too few symptoms are present to allow a descriptive classification. We found in the communities studied an average of 25.4% of the population without symptoms; 51.4% with some type of psychopathology and 23.3% that can be considered "case". In all the populations women showed a higher percentage of psychopathologies than men (means women: 27.6%; means men: 12.6%). We did not find any statistical association between prevalence and age; only in two communities we did find one between prevalence and familiar structure, being higher in subjects married and rearing children.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001118:Argentina; D003469:Culture; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology*
vernacular_title: Factores socioculturales y presencia de psicopatologías en poblaciones de distintas localidades argentinas.