II. Demographic Psychiatric and Physical Factors in Relation to Psychiatric Outcome

Dennis Gath, Peter Cooper, Ann Day, Alison Bond, Gillian Edmonds
In: British Journal of Psychiatry · 1982 · vol. 140(4) , pp. 343–350 · doi:10.1192/bjp.140.4.343 · PMID:7201337 · W2113454248
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Pre-operative mental state, neuroticism, and psychiatric history were strongly associated with psychiatric outcomes 18 months after hysterectomy for menorrhagia.

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One hundred and fifty-six patients with menorrhagia of benign origin were interviewed before hysterectomy, and again six months (n = 147) and 18 months (n = 148) after the operation. Psychiatric outcome, measured in terms of PSE cases detected at 18 months, was strongly associated with pre-operative mental state, neuroticism, previous psychiatric history, and family psychiatric history. No association was found with organic pathology in the uterus, bilateral oophorectomy or demographic variables.
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