title: [Depressive symptoms and widespread pains in a prisoner: think on vitamin D deficiency].
abstract: The confinement can lead to an important limitation of sun exposure of the prisoners. This limitation can lead to a deficit in vitamin D, source of diverse disorders. Diffuse pains of members and of joints are the most classics troubles. The association of vitamin D deficiency and psychiatric disorders is frequent but badly known. Even if there is still no evidence indicating a cause and effect relationship between vitamin D deficiency and depressive episodes, the contribution of vitamin D deficiency in the arisen of a depression has to be considered. The treatment of vitamin D deficiency cannot, in itself, constitute a treatment of the depressive disorder but contributes to the improvement of the whole status The psychiatric follow-up remains indispensable, in particular because of the suicidal risk, particularly present in prison.
authors.affiliation: Polyclinique médicale universitaire, service de médecine et de psychiatrie pénitentiaires, 1008 Prilly, Suisse.
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cheseaux
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Muselle
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gravier
mesh_terms: D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011329:Prisoners; D014808:Vitamin D Deficiency / Q000453:epidemiology*