Cross sectional study on burden and psychiatric morbidity in the caregivers of patients of major psychiatric illness in a tertiary healthcare centre

Background: Prevalence rates for psychiatric disorders during pregnancy have been found to range from 6-13%. Psychiatric caseness during pregnancy not only affects the mother but also affects the health and development of the child. Various factors have been found to be associated with psychiatric caseness in different cultural and social settings including obstetric history. Objective: To evaluate the relation of obstetric history in pregnant population with psychiatric caseness.Methods: This is a cross sectional study with a total of 300 sample collected within 6 months in antenatal clinic of obstetric OPD, TUTH using semi-structured proforma and SRQ-24. Results: 15% of the pregnant women could be labeled as psychiatric cases. Trimester and, complication during current pregnancy showed statistically significant association with psychiatric caseness. Conclusion: As 15% of pregnant ANC attendees were found to be having psychiatric illness, it can be recommended that pregnant females be routinely screened for the possibility of psychiatric caseness especially if it is the first trimester or complication during this pregnancy is noted.J Psychiatric Association of Nepal Vol .3, No.2, 2014, pp:20-24DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpan.v3i2.12383

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Psychiatric morbidity as a risk factor for hospital inpatients' safety: a cross-sectional study

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management ◽

10.1504/ijram.2019.101271 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 128

Author(s):

Roberta Mutti ◽

Francesca Montali ◽

Antonio Ferrari ◽

Antonio Nouvenne ◽

Fulvio Lauretani ◽

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Keyword(s):

Risk Factor ◽

Psychiatric Morbidity ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Hospital Inpatients

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Cross-Sectional Study of Epidemiological Determinants of Substance Abuse among Male Substance Abusers Attending a De-Addiction Centre in Bangalore City

Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare ◽

10.18410/jebmh/2021/475 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (29) ◽

pp. 2572-2577

Author(s):

Sumanth Tarikere Parameshwaraiah ◽

Vishnuvardhan Gopalkrishna ◽

Vidhyavathi Malyam ◽

Asha Chandahalli Sannappa ◽

Amulya Bhaskara ◽

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Keyword(s):

Substance Abuse ◽

Child Abuse ◽

Family History ◽

Psychiatric Illness ◽

Peer Pressure ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Common Reason ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

History Of

BACKGROUND Substance abuse is a cause of deaths, global burden of disease and injury. Increasing trends of underage substance abuse have shown to be associated with future substance dependency. Understanding various factors associated with it will help mitigate the severity and extent of use. In this study, we wanted to find out the pattern of substance abuse in patients at a de-addiction centre in Bangalore. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 500 male patients admitted to a deaddiction centre in Bangalore. Information was collected using pre-tested and structured questionnaire forms and the collected data was analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) v 16.0 software. RESULTS The majority of the participants abused alcohol (92.4 %) and nicotine (74.2 %). 40.5 % of the participants initiated alcohol abuse in age groups of 12 – 18 (Years). Peer pressure (40.4 %) and curiosity (19 %) were observed as the most common reason for substance abuse. The common reason to seek de-addiction services was family pressure (22.4 %), physical health problems (14.2 %), family responsibility (12.4 %) fear of being a social outcast in the community (12 %) and psychiatric problems (10.6 %). Among the participants, 39.4 % had a family history of substance abuse and 41 % had a history of psychiatric illness. 47.4 % reported a history of child abuse. CONCLUSIONS Most participants initiated abuse before age of 25 mainly due to peer pressure. Proper enforcement of rules concerning under-aged substance abuse, proper peer and familial support, addressing concerns of psychiatric comorbidity and child abuse can decrease the chances of future dependency and thus lessen the burden of the problem. KEYWORDS De-Addiction Centre, Under-Aged Substance Abuse, Family History, Psychiatric Illness

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Pattern of psychiatric morbidity among female patients who attended private consultation chambers in Dhaka city

Bangladesh Medical Journal ◽

10.3329/bmj.v45i1.28959 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 45 (1) ◽

pp. 14-19

Author(s):

Helal Uddin Ahmed ◽

AFM Helal Uddin ◽

Md Nazmul Islam ◽

M Abdur Rahim Khan ◽

Hossien Muhammad Zaki ◽

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Keyword(s):

Psychiatric Illness ◽

Psychiatric Morbidity ◽

Total Sample ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Somatoform Disorder ◽

Dhaka City ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Social Stressors ◽

Female Patients ◽

Mental Diseases

Mental illness affect women and men differently - some disorders are more common in women; some are manifested with different symptoms. In Bangladesh, 16.1% of the adult populations suffer from some degree of mental disorder and the prevalence is higher in women than men (19.0% vs 12.9%). This study is a cross sectional study, done on female patients who attended at private chambers of psychiatrists located within Dhaka city of Bangladesh. Total sample size is 280 and duration of the study was six months from May 2014 to October 2014. The major objective of the study was to determine the pattern of psychiatric illness among the women who attended some psychiatrists private chamber in Dhaka city and also to identify the socio-economic and environmental stressors causing psychiatric illness. The findings revealed that highest numbers of the patients (41%) belonged to the age group between 21-30 years and the second largest group having 31-40 years of age (21%). Most patients hailed from urban area (79%) and among all the patients most of them were married (58%). There are various psycho-social stressors which can be held responsible for causing psychiatric illness - domestic violence, marital breakdown and co-morbid physical illness. Among the several pattern of mental diseases, depressive disorder was the commonest (17.7%), followed by somatoform disorder (14%) and schizophrenia (13.3%). Among all the patients, substance abuse was found in 4.2% of patients. This study finally argues that for reduction of psychiatric morbidity among female patients, medical services must be extended to the community level.Bangladesh Med J. 2016 Jan; 45 (1): 14-19

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