This paper aimed to characterize psychological factors as anxiety and depression in a sample of patients classified as carring psychological factors that affect medical conditions. It was subjects of the investigation: 30 patients that sought a general hospital localized in the suburban area of São Paulo city south zone, of both sexes that was framed in classification above. It was utilized Factorial Scale of Emotional Adjustment/Neuroticism (EFN), developed by Hutz & Nunes (2001). As principal results it has been found: 36,67% of the subjects above the average and 16,67% much above the average, in sub-scale of anxiety, and 43,33% above the average and 36,67% much above the average, in sub-scale of depression.
depression; anxiety; psychological factors that affect medical condition; multifactorial disease
