6-MONTH AND LIFETIME PREVALENCES OF PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDERS IN INPATIENTS WITH DIABETES-MELLITUS

The Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) was used to as sess the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in a French population of 46 inpatients with diabetes mellitus. According to DSM-III-R criteria , 52.2% of subjects presented at least one psychiatric diagnosis in th eir lifetime and 41.3% did so less than six months before the study. A ffective and anxiety disorders represented at least 83% of the psychia tric diagnoses. The risk for those disorders seems to be restricted to a predisposed group as only one of the 16 subjects who had suffered f rom an anxiety or depressive episode within the previous six months ha d never experienced such an episode before.