title: [Emotional, physical and psychiatric disorders in relatives of schizophrenia patients in Mexico].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A study was to investigate the frequency with which they have emotional disorders, physical and psychiatric symptoms in FCPI, knowing the relationship with demographic variables and clinical caregivers of patients with schizophrenia.
  
  
  METHODS
  It was a cross sectional, descriptive, correlational, study and ex-post-facto, of a non probabilistic sample, using 131 relatives carers. Instruments. 1-The Compositive International Diagnostic Interview version 1.0 (CIDI) 2-Social Behaviour Assessment Schedule 2nd Ed. (SBAS).
  
  
  RESULTS
  58% of the relatives presented 1 to 4 psychiatric diagnoses, the most frequent was: depression (20.6%), alcohol dependence (9.9%) and dissociative disorders (7.6%); the relatives' carers reported some physical (48%) or emotional (74%) illness related to the presence of the schizophrenia in their relatives.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The predictive variables associated with the presence of psychopathology in the relatives carers': the presence of active symptomatology in the patient, the years of evolution of the illness and the number of hospitalizations, r = 0.38; p > 0.000.
authors.affiliation: Dirección de Investigaciones Epidemiológicas y Psicosociales, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente, México, DF. rascong@imp.edu.mx
authors.forename: María Luisa
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Rascón
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Caraveo
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Valencia
mesh_terms: D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics*; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000235:genetics*; D035781:Siblings / Q000523:psychology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics