title: New potential clinical indicators of consultation-liaison psychiatry's effectiveness in Brazilian general hospitals.
abstract: The authors identified patients' subjective well-being (SWB), relatives' satisfaction with their information needs, and the medical team's difficulty in helping patients, as potential indicators of effectiveness of consultation-liaison psychiatry. A random sampling of 74 beds was carried out (1 bed=1 patient + 1 relative + 1 nurse + 1 physician). There were negative correlations between SWB and anxious and depressive symptoms, and positive correlations with nurses' difficulty in helping patients and patients' depressive symptoms, nurses' difficulty in helping patients and their perception about anxious and depressive symptoms; and physicians' difficulty in helping patients and their perception about anxious and depressive symptoms. Patients' SWB and difficulty in helping them constituted potential indicators in consultation-liaison psychiatry, whereas relatives' satisfaction did not.
authors.affiliation: Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service of the Dept. of Psychiatry at the Universidade Federal de Saõ Paulo, Brazil. vcitero@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Vanessa
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: de Albuquerque Citero
authors.forename: Paola Bruno
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: de Araújo Andreoli
authors.forename: Luiz Antonio
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Nogueira-Martins
authors.forename: Sergio Baxter
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Andreoli
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001938:Brazil; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires