Guilherme, Ana LúciaSimões, JoanaSousa, VanessaArvela, Ana PaulaAlmeida-de-Souza, Juliana2014-09-232014-09-232012Guilherme, Ana Lúcia; Simões, Joana; Sousa, Vanessa; Arvela, Ana Paula; Souza, Juliana (2012). Anthropometric data, energy consumption and psychotropic therapy in psychiatric patients. In The IEA-EEF European Congress of Epidemiology 2012: Epidemiology for a Fair and Healthy Society. Porto. ISSN 0393-2990 p. s156-s1560393-2990http://hdl.handle.net/10198/10545Background In the last year, one in five Portuguese (23 %) suffered from a mental illness and almost half (43 %) has suffered, once in a lifetime, of these disorders. (Furtado et al., 2010) Data indicated that patients with persistent mental illness have higher obesity prevalence, comparing with general populations (Daumit et al. 2003). It aims to study the patient profile related to Anthropometric data (body mass index–BMI, body fat percentage–BF%), Energy consumption and Psychotropic Therapy of patients with psychiatric disorders treated with psychotropic drugs. It aims also to verify the correlation between Energy consumption and Anthropometry data with Psychotropic therapy.engAnthropometricEnergy consumptionPsychotropic therapyPsychiatric patientsconference object1573-7284