[Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in men and women hospitalized in a internal medicine service of a hospital of Santiago, Chile].

Background: Mental disorders may interfere, aggravate or mimic medical conditions.

Aim: To study the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among patients hospitalized in a medical ward of a general hospital.

Patients And Methods: A structured interview for DSM-III, devised for "non patients", was applied to 203 men and 203 women, aged 11 to 90 years old, hospitalized in an internal medicine service of a public hospital.

[Perinatal mental health in hospital care of labor and puerperium].

The biomedical model has successfully reduced mother and child mortality and diseases during the labor and puerperal period. In the perinatal period, the mother and her offspring can also have psychosocial problems, that have been insufficiently studied and that we propose considering. Based on neurobiological information, on bonding theory and on a focus change in the everyday work of human behavior experts in maternity hospitals, we propose that perinatal mental health should have an important place and can be harmoniously articulated with the biomedical model.

[Development and evaluation of a measure scale of risk of mother-newborn infant relations].

The purpose of this work was to construct and assess a scale aimed to detect risky relationships between mothers and newborns that could predict future child abuse and neglect. The instrument was applied in two opportunities, by a trained midwife and by an expert in mental health, to a sample of 106 mother-newborn dyads. When both assessments were compared, the concordance to assess relationship risk was 99.