The relationships between sociodemographic, psychosocial and clinical variables with personal-stigma in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Background: Studies suggest that people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia are one of the most stigmatized groups in society.

Aim: To comprehensively analyze personal stigma in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Method: Data were obtained from 89 patients.

Staging of depressive disorders: Relevance of resistance to treatment and residual symptoms.

Background: Clinical staging model for depression helps to better define the clinical situation of patients. The objectives of this study are: to correlate the Hetrick's staging model of depression with the severity of depression, associated disability, and resistance to treatment in the established disease stages and to test the modification introduced by our group consisting in the introduction of a substage for recurrence from a previous episode that was stabilized with a complete remission.

Methods: A Cross-sectional study with 133 adult subjects having a current and primary diagnosis of Depressive disorder was developed.