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MADUENO CARO, A. J. et al. Symptoms in relation with social phobia in health personal  . Medifam [online]. 2002, vol.12, n.5, pp.25-39. ISSN 1131-5768.

Backgrounds: prevalence of social phobia in general population is between 8-15,6%. It´s unknow prevalence in health personal, who needs to do activities of education to community and cientific communications.  Objectives: to determinate the prevalence of symptoms relationated with social phobia in health personal.  Design: transversal study.  Setting: health district of Primare Health Care.  Subjects: personal of fifteen health centers.  Measurements: it´s questionated for take anonymous questionary, social phobia of Liebowitz (LSAS) and the anxiety-depression of Golberg (EADG) scales to medical personal and infirmary who were working in a health district (study population= 266 subjects).  Results: answer rate 39% (n= 104). There were severe social anxiety in 1.8% of all cases (2 subjects), moderate in 25.7% (22 subjects) and light or not pathological in 76.5% (89 subjects). For all professionals included in the study, it is detected the coexistence of symptoms in relation with social phobia and EADG subscales with stadistic signification (p < 0.0012 for light anxiety and p< 0.034 for moderate and severe phobia).  Conclusions: high prevalence of symptoms in relation with social phobia in health personal of a district for a study. It´s necessary special attention to this pathology and to the evidence of coexistence of anxiety and depression symptoms detected.

Palavras-chave : Social phobia; Health personal; Prevalence.

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