Factors Affecting the Management of Somatic Comorbidity in Tunisian Patients with Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is often accompanied by somatic comorbidities, which make the management challenge of such patients more difficult. In this study, we proposed to identify the sociodemographic and clinical factors correlating with somatic comorbidities in patients with schizophrenia to facilitate screening and prevention. It was a retrospective descriptive study of 78 schizophrenia patients in clinical remission and followed in outpatient psychiatry.

The Management of Depressed Patients by the Tunisian General Practitioners: A Critical Trans-sectional Study.

Under-diagnosed and under-treated, depression has a pejorative prognosis. The general practitioners (GP) represent the most often consulted healthcare professionals by depressed patients. The aim was to describe how the Tunisian GPs manage the depressed patients and to note the difficulties they encounter in order to suggest corrective measures.

A study of the relationship between eating disorders, stress level and selfesteem among medicine students.

Background: Stress of the higher studies leads to various disorders, especially eating ones. Such disorders, once present, may influence body image and self-esteem of young students.

Aim: to assess the prevalence of eating disorders among a group of Medicine students and to study its links with stress level and selfesteem.

[Emotional disorders and inflammatory bowel disease].

Background: The co-occurrence of emotional disorders (alexithymia, depression and anxiety) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is reported in the literature. There are several possible explanations for this co morbidity.

Aim: To evaluate the prevalence of alexithymia, anxiety and depression among patients with IBD and to compare them with a control group of healthy individuals and to discuss the relation between emotional disorders and IBD.

[Clinical and therapeutic particularities of depression in the elderly].

Depression in older people slightly differs from younger subjects adults. Generally, typical depressive symptoms are overlooked by other symptoms. The most frequent ones are excessive preoccupation with health and complaints about physical symptoms.

[Sociocultural, clinical and psychological profile of the epileptic consulting in adult psychiatry, relative to 197 cases].

Background: In the Sfax area and the south of Tunisia, epileptics are not all followed by neurologist. Some are addressed to psychiatrist. This fact raises the question of the motivations of such an orientation.