Análisis comparativo de los pacientes con y sin trastorno mental diagnosticable

Coping with Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome: quality of life and psychosocial features of family carers

“…The caregivers’ responses to SCL-90-R were evaluated against the scores obtained from a normative sample of healthy population [ 51 ] and a sample categorized as code Z (previously described in methods section) [ 49 ]. The independent t-test was used to determine whether there were any statistically significant differences within a broad range of caregivers’ psychological problems and psychopathological symptoms in comparison to the normative and code Z groups.…”

“…a Caregiver sample of this current study b Normative sample findings as published by González de Rivera et al, [ 51 ]. c Z code sample findings as published by Lozano, Ortiz & González [ 49 ]…”

“…The most frequent symptom dimensions arising were Depression, Somatization, Obsessive-Compulsive (including unwanted or unavoidable recurrent thoughts or actions), and Hostility (thoughts, feelings, and actions characterizing the negative effects of anger). The results of the caregivers in our study were compared with a sample of healthy population [ 51 ] and a code Z population of people with no diagnosis but who were suffering from significant clinical distress [ 49 ]. The caregivers obtained a symptom score equivalent to the Z code population in two of the highest scoring variables in the study and scored higher than healthy populations for many of the scale dimensions.…”

“…In SCL-90-R, Z-Code sample was used to run difference analysis with the study data. This group is made up of people with issues relating to distress or feelings deriving from day-to-day life issues, but without a diagnosable mental disorder [ 49 ]. A code Z sample was selected to draw a comparison with a similar population that shown significant clinical distress, but such as caregivers in other studies, they didn’t meet a mental health problem diagnostic criteria.…”