[Liaison psychiatry in the Allergy Department of the Hospital de la Princesa].

Abstract

Anxiety symptoms are observed with quite frequency associated to allergic diseases. It's also detected in a certain number of defined psychiatric pathology. In the allergic service of a General Hospital a programme of Psychiatry liaison that develops activities focused on the clinical team and on the allergic patients was done. The performance with the clinical unit are focused in the integration of them based on the characteristics peculiarities of the allergic patient. There are a variety of activities with the patient they can go from an information plan to psychotherapy. The results observed after a year show a higher efficiency in the clinical unit, a decrease of stress and modification of some neurotic attitudes of the patients.