Evolução da morbidade por doenças mentais no município de Alfenas-MG / Morbidity evolution by mental disorders in the municipal district of Alfenas in Minas Gerais.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

This study was made with the objective to describe the evolution of morbidity by mental disorders with more frequency in the municipal district of Alfenas in Minas Gerais State by data provided by the informatics system of The Unified Health System (DATASUS) from 1995 to 2007. For this, it was created a guide for the data collection about hospital morbidity by Mental Disturbs, General Hospital Morbidity and Hospital Morbidity by Pregnancy, Labour and Puerperium (PLP). Therefore, the description of the hospitalization by mental disorders was made evaluating its cause and considering it in the total of causes hospitalizations and also, evaluating the work that it represented for the area during the study, excluding the main cause for the Hospital Morbidity, as it is for the cases of hospitalizations by PLP. The results of this investigation made possible to show that the aspects of hospitalizations by Mental Disorders in Alfenas, diminished during the period since that the proportion of hospitalizations presented a reduction of approximately 80%. As for the period of permanence, in days, it is noticed that there is a higher prevalence of men in disadvantage to women. In relation to the cost of the hospitalizations, there was a considered rise for both genders and the group of diagnosis of psychiatric disturbs which demanded more financial sources were the ones related to schizophrenic disturbs. The most common mental disturbs are the ones related to the diagnosis of Schizophrenia, Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substances and Emotional Disturbs. The diagnosis related to schizophrenia in 2005 corresponded approximately 70% of all hospitalizations by mental disturbs in the district. In conclusion, there is a necessity of more studies in this field because of the relevance that the psychiatric disturbs present, not only for the district but also for the country. The changes in the psychiatric morbidity aspects with the hospitalization diagnosis related to schizophrenia being higher, the reason of the occurrences in the last years must be evaluated and explained.

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psychiatric nursing morbidade epidemiologia. enfermagem psiquiátrica epidemiology morbidity

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