CLINICAL AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PROFILE OF USERS OF CAPSI DR JOÃO CASTELO BRANCO OF THE CITY CAMPOS GOYTACAZES, RJ

• Autor(a) principal: Rangel, Carolina Cassiano
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Teixeira, Cláudio Luiz dos Santos, da Silva, Vera Lúcia Marques
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Científica da Faculdade de Medicina de Campos
• Texto Completo: https://www.fmc.br/ojs/index.php/RCFMC/article/view/28
• topic: Saúde Mental; Transtornos Mentais; Epidemiologia; Mental Health; Mental Disorders; Epidemiology

Mental disorders have long been ignored by society and public health policies, it gets worse when it is the children and adolescents mental health, because there is a paucity of epidemiological information about that. OBJECTIVES: As public policy in mental health relatively recent - about ten years and given the paucity of epidemiological studies on the subject , this research aims to delineate the clinical and epidemiological profile of patients accompanied by CAPSi Dr João Castelo Branco in the municipality of Campos Goytacazes in order to contribute to epidemiological data on children and adolescents with mental disorders attended by the municipality and assist the preparation and organization of public policies on mental health to better serve them. METHODS: It is a descriptive, cross-sectional, conducted with data obtained from the medical records of all patients seen in 2014 at the CAPSi in question. RESULTS: Of the 248 records analyzed 66.1% were males; only 7.7% sought the service by spontaneous demand; 48.4% were in semi-intensive treatment regimen; among the main complaints we can highlight the aggression (47.98%), agitation (19.75%), learning disabilities (14.51%). Among the most prevalent diagnosis are the behavioral disorders and emotional disorders (F90-98) corresponding to 40.70% of the diagnoses, followed by mental retardation (F70-79) - 13.06% and pervasive developmental disorders (F84) - 11.55%. CONCLUSIONS: It can be concluded that mental disorders in childhood and youth have a significant prevalence in the population and should be valued the public health policies to meet this demand.