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24th European Congress of Psychiatry / European Psychiatry 33S (2016) S116–S348

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SD = 1.434) compared to individuals who had not experienced

such a reduction (M= 17.957, SD = 2.611). There was a significant

effect of annual income on BMI (

F

(4.10) = 3.74,

P

= 00.01,

p

2

= 0.96),

after controlling for the effect of exercise intensity (

F

(1.10) = 4.58,

P

= 0.034,

p

2

= 0.31). However, the financial crisis did not signifi-

cantly affect exercise, smoking behaviour or eating habits (

P

> 0.05).

Significant correlations between tobacco use and drinking were

found (

r

(206) = 0.22,

P

< 0.001). A significant correlation was also

found between exercise and the consumption of fruits and vegeta-

bles (

r

(174) = 0.26,

P

< 0.001).

Conclusion

The financial crisis reduced alcohol consumption

whilst it did not affect physical activity, smoking or eating habits.

These findings allow us to propose that, despite the bleak reality of

a period of financial crisis, such periods could actually lead to the

reduction of unhealthy behaviours.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

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Comparison of metabolic syndrome

between patients with severe mental

disorders

B. Mata Saenz

1 ,

, S.L. Romero Guillena

2

,

B.O. Plasencia García de Diego

3

1

Hospital General Universitario de Ciudad Real, Psychiatry, Ciudad

Real, Spain

2

Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Psychiatry, Seville, Spain

3

Hospital de la Merced, Psychiatry, Osuna, Spain

Corresponding author.

Introduction

Metabolic alterations are one of the main causes

of mortality and morbidity associated with cardiovascular disease

in patients with severe mental disorders. Polypharmacy has been

shown to increase the risk.

Objectives

To check the patients with schizophrenia and bipolar

disorder admitted to our unit and their metabolic parameters.

Aims

To assess the prevalence of thyroid dysfunction, diabetes

and dyslipidemia in patients diagnosedwith these disorders admit-

ted to our unit between 2013 and 2014, and compare the results.

Methods

We conducted an epidemiological, observational, ret-

rospective study of patients with these disorders admitted to our

unit in this period. Clinical and socio-demographic variables were

collected and analyzed by The Statistical Package for Social Science

version 19.0.

Results

No association was detected between treatment with

antipsychotics (typical/atypical) and metabolic variables. This may

be due to the fact that mostly of patients received a combination

treatment of both

( Table 1 ).

Conclusions

Dyslipidemia and diabetes seem to be more preva-

lent in patients with schizophrenia in our sample, but thyroid

dysfunction is more prevalent in patients with bipolar disorder.

However, the two samples are very different so more studies are

needed.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their decla-

ration of competing interest.

.

Table 1

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The impact of anxiety and depression

on academic performance in

undergraduate medical students

A.I. Mih˘ailescu

1 ,

, L.V. Diaconescu

1

, A.M. Ciobanu

2

, T. Donisan

1

,

C. Mihailescu

3

1

University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila”, Medical

Psychology, Bucharest, Romania

2

University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila”, Psychiatry,

Bucharest, Romania

3

CMI dr Mihailescu S. Cristian, Family Medicine, Bucharest, Romania

Corresponding author.

Introduction

Stress associated with medical education, corre-

lated with symptoms of depression and anxiety, has been involved

in generating academic performance problems and thus, long-term

consequences, such as poor quality of medical care. If anxiety and

depression are proved to influence quality of academic achieve-

ment, their prevention could lead to better outcomes also in the

quality of medical care.

Objective

The objective of the study was to analyze if anxiety and

depression decrease academic performance in first and second year

medical students.

Methods

As a measure of anxiety and depression symptoms

we used Zung Self-rating Anxiety score > 36, respectively Zung

Self-rating Depression Scale score > 40, in the periods before the

examination session, in the first semester (in no-stress conditions).

As a measure of academic performance, we have obtained the aver-

age grade at the end of the academic year from 254 of the total

population of 356 first and second year medical students. Statis-

tical analyses were carried out with SPSS version 16 (Spearman

correlations and logistic regression).

Results

Academic performance decreases inversely in rapport

of anxiety (rho = –0.144,

P

< 0.05) and depression (rho = –0.192,

P

< 0.05) scores in the period before the examination session. Also,

depression in this period predicts low levels of academic perfor-

mance with average grade in the inferior quarter (grades lower

than 7.52) particularly in first year students, irrespective of gender

(

2

= 8.922,

P

< 0.01, OR = 0.928; IC 95% = 0.864–0.997).

Conclusion

These findings suggest the necessity of coming up

with prophylactic methods to prevent anxiety and depression