title: Alterations in psychosocial  health of people affected by  asbestos poisoning.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the state of psychosocial and mental health of professionals affected by asbestos.
  
  
  METHODS
  A cross-sectional study was conducted with 110 professionals working in the Ferrolterra region of Spain, who were affected by asbestos poisoning. This group was compared with a group of 70 shipyard workers with no manifestation of work-related diseases. All the participants were male with a mean age of 67 years. This study was conducted in 2013, between January and June, and used the SCL-90 questionnaire by Derogatis as its primary measure for research. This questionnaire consists of 9 variables that measure psychosomatic symptoms. In addition, an overall index of psychosomatic gravity was calculated. The participants were also asked two questions concerning their overall perception of feeling good. Data were analyzed by ANOVA and logistic regression.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants affected by asbestos poisoning showed high occurrence rates of psychological health variables such as somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, psychoticism, and global severity index.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Social interaction as a differentiating factor between workers affected by work-related chronic syndromes as compared to healthy participants will possibly aid in the development of intervention programs by improving the social network of affected individuals.
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Clemente
authors.forename: Adela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reig-Botella
authors.forename: Juan Carlos
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Prados
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001194:Asbestos / Q000506:poisoning*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000209:etiology*; D008603:Mental Health; D009784:Occupational Diseases; D011788:Quality of Life; D013030:Spain; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D001194:Asbestos