[Malingering among workers seeking disability insurance].

Objective: Describe the frequency and characteristics of Mexican Social Security workers with malingering disorder that request disability pension.

Material And Methods: Comparative survey made among 136 workers seen during 2001, which were divided into three groups: malingering workers (MW), workers without disability (WOD), and workers with disability (WWD). We administered the Z Test for scaled variables and Z2 Test for nominal variables to identify group differences

Results: The incidence ofmalingering was of 2.