Emotional-Type Psychopathologic Symptoms among Patients with Terminal Chronic Alcohol-Induced Liver Cirrhosis
Introduction: Patients with toxic substance abuse syndrome, such as alcohol abuse, have elevated psychopathologic morbidity and mortality such as mood disorders. Objective: To evaluate the emotional-type psychopathologic symptoms in patients with alcohol-induced hepatic cirrhosis on the liver transp...
| Autores: | , , , , , , , , , , , |
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM) |
| Repositorio: | RIUCAM. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ucam.edu:10952/9110 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10952/9110 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Emotional-Type Psychopathologic Symptoms Eend-stage chronic liver cirrhosis Alcohol |
| Sumario: | Introduction: Patients with toxic substance abuse syndrome, such as alcohol abuse, have elevated psychopathologic morbidity and mortality such as mood disorders. Objective: To evaluate the emotional-type psychopathologic symptoms in patients with alcohol-induced hepatic cirrhosis on the liver transplant waiting list. Materials and methods: Patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis who were candidates for liver transplant (n = 41) completed the SA-45 questionnaire (González y Cuevas; 88), which assesses nine dimensions: somatizations, obsessive-compulsivity, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism. A control group consisted of patients with chronic nonalcoholic terminal hepatopathies (n = 22). Results: Seventy-six percent of patients had some kind of psychopathologic symptom compared to 68% of the patients in the control group with other nonalcoholic etiologies (P > .05). The emotional-type clinical symptoms were: (1) somatizations: 37% of patients with alcoholic cirrhosis had this type of clinical symptoms compared to 32% of the control group (P > .05); (2) obsessive-compulsivity: 56% versus 46%, respectively (P > .05); (3) interpersonal sensitivity: 19% versus 9%, respectively (P > .05); (4) depression: 54% versus 27%, respectively (P = .045); (5) anxiety: 59% versus 46%, respectively (P > .05); (6) hostility: 29% versus 5%, respectively (P = .021); (7) phobic anxiety: 10% versus 14%, respectively (P > .05); (8) paranoid Ideation: 7% versus 5%, respectively (P > .05); (9) psychoticism: 5% versus 4%, respectively (P > .05). Conclusions: The patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis on the liver transplant waiting list had elevated psychopathologic symptoms. Depressive- and hostile-type emotional alterations were most frequent in this type of patients. |
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