%0 Journal Article
%T Simulaci¨®n en trabajadores que solicitan pensi¨®n por invalidez laboral
%A Quezada-Ortega
%A Mart¨ªn Rafael
%A Razo-Mondrag¨®n
%A Jos¨¦ Luis Pedro
%A Mar¨ªn-Coto£¿ieto
%A Irma Araceli
%A Salinas-Tovar
%A Santiago
%A L¨®pez-Rojas
%A Pablo
%J Gaceta m¨¦dica de M¨¦xico
%D 2006
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X objective: describe the frequency and characteristics of mexican social security workers with malingering disorder that request disability pension. material and methods: comparative survey made among 136 workers seen during 2001, which were divided into three groups: malingering workers (mw), workers without disability (wod), and workers with disability (wwd). we administered the z test for scaled variables and test for nominal variables to identify group differences results: the incidence of malingering was of 2.2/100,000 workers. mean age was 41.9 ¡À 10.1 years, 440 was the average number of days of labor disability; 51 (37%) workers were malingerers. 35 (26%) workers were work disabled and 50 (37%) without disability. malingerers had higher level of schooling compared with wod and wwd (p < 0.02); most worked at the social security (p < 0.05), with lower number of previous jobs (p < 0.05), presented longer work disability (p < 0.05). depressive symptoms were not frequently noted (p < 0.025) and all had normal electroencephalogram and brain computed tomography studies. conclusions: malingering workers who request work disability pensions follow a particular pattern that differs from other workers that request disability assessment at the social security institute of mexico.
%K malingering
%K disability
%K workers.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0016-38132006000200005&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en