 To estimate the prevalence of mood disorders among 78 consecutive admissions to a general medical ward in a university general hospital in Brazil, interviewers used the revised clinical interview schedule, CISR, and the hospital anxiety and depression had scale. The definition of cases of anxiety and depression was based on two criteria, a score greater than two on the CISR section of anxiety or depression and a score greater than two on the clinical severity scale for anxiety or depression. A 39% prevalence rate of effective disorders was found. 16, 20.5% patients met criteria for anxiety, most of the disorders being of mild severity. 26, 33% were depressed, seven of them in a moderate degree. The had was easily understood by the patients and had internal consistency of 0.68 and 0. This article was authored by Nuri J. Bottega, Marcia Arbaio, Maria Adriana Samignani, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.