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Immigrant patients are those with the most severe psychiatric disorders, according to the conclusions of the doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Murcia by Luis Miguel Toledo Muñoz.
The study, which has obtained excellent cum laude, has analyzed a composed of almost 400 psychiatric patients attending basic general hospital emergency department Defense Cartagena between November 2011 and June 2012 shows.
As for immigrants, it states that that situation seriously is because they consume more substances of abuse as they rarely wear a prescribed treatment.
The findings indicate that psychiatric emergencies recorded during the period under review accounted for 1.5 percent of the total, representing 40 percent of patients associated organic pathology.
The demographic profile of the patient corresponds to a woman aged between 26 and 40 years, with primary education, unemployed and married.
The doctoral thesis was supervised by professors from the University of Murcia Moon Aurelio Perez Maria Dolores Maldonado and Prisons.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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