[Depressive disorders and quality of life: a cross sectional study including 360 depressive patients followed at the psychiatry consultation of the Mahdia university hospital].

Introduction: Depressive disorders affect many psychosocial and functional aspects, leading to a real social handicap and an alteration in quality of life.

Aim Of The Study: Our purposes were to evaluate the depressive patient's quality of life and to identify the risk factors responsible for this deterioration.

Design: Our cross sectional study lasted for four months, from 1st March to 30th June 2003, and included 360 depressive patients followed at the psychiatry consultation of the university hospital in Mahdia.

[Haemodialysis and its impact on the quality of life].

The haemodialysis has considerably transformed the evolution of chronic renal failure which usually has a precarious evolution. However, this palliative treatment disturbed in several manners the universe of the patient. Our purposes were to evaluate the quality of life of patient on haemodialysis and to identify the risk factors that can deteriorate it.

[Acute nuptial psychosis: apropos of 16 cases].

The marriage, an over-invested social event in our Maghrebin cultural context, can, in certain cases, generate major psychiatric disorders especially of psychotic types. The aim of our study is to describe the clinical specifications of these psychotic disorders and to discuss the surroundings and individuals factors incriminated in their genesis. Our retrospective study concerns sixteen patients suffering from acute psychotic disorders precipitated by marriage.