[Self-injured inflicted and anxiety-depressive syndrome in patients that came to Protected Medicine of Sandro Pertini Hospital in Rome].
The aim of our study is to observe the self-injured inflicted dimension in prisoners and to estimate the presence of one correlation with the anxiety-depressive syndrome.


METHODS
From 15th of Oct 2006 till 31st Aug 2009 we have admitted to our department 150 patients that showed previous or recent evidences of self inflicted injuries and the use and abuse of tranquillizers and antidepressive drugs. The patients were classified in data base and we made an observation study.


RESULTS
Out of 150 (100%) patients admitted to hospital, 55 (37%) patients had had a recent or previous episode of self-injured inflicted, 23 (15%) patients had taken antidepressive drugs and 72 (48%) patients had been in treatment with benzodiazepines. Among 55 patients that reported on medical history evidences of self-injured inflicted only 4 (7%) had taken antidepressive drugs and 18 (33%) had been in treatment with benzodiazepines. Among 18 patients in treatment with benzodiazepines, 12 (67%) patients had begun to use it during the detention regime.


CONCLUSIONS
The phenomenon of self-injured inflicted among the patients that came to our department is very widespread and it resulted to be more frequent than in common people. We observed a correlation among the episodes of self-injured inflicted and the anxiety-depressive syndrome. Often the hardships is pre-existent to admittance in prison and the detention stresses that phenomenon. In fact, most of episodes of self-injured inflicted occurred during detention regime.
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Dipartimento di Igiene e Medicina Preventiva, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italia.
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D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011329:Prisoners; D012384:Rome; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*