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Title: Psychiatric Morbidity & Sociodemographic Profile of the Patients Attending Private Psychiatric Clinic

Authors: Rameshwar S Manhas, Manu Arora, Gaurav S Manhas, Jagdish R Thappa, Angli Manhas

 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i6.91

Abstract

Background: Psychiatric disorders have an economic impact on individual, their families and the society. About 25% population of the world are affected by mental and behavior disorders at sometimes during their lives. Psychiatric disorders are diagnosed and identified by using clinical methods which are similar to those used for physical disorders.

Aims: To find psychiatric morbidity & sociodemographic profile of the patients attending private psychiatric clinic.

Materials & Methods: The present cross sectional study was conducted in a private psychiatric clinic located in Jammu region on 172 patients after fulfilling inclusion and exclusion criteria All the information about the patients like age, sex, residence etc were recorded in a separate sheet and diagnosis of the patient was made according to diagnostic and statistical manual for mental disorder (DSM 5).

Results: Total of 38.4% patients were in the age group of 21-30 years, males were 54.1%, about 71.5% patients were from urban background. Regarding psychiatric morbidity 39.5% patients were of depression, 23.8% were of substance abuse disorder, 21.6% were of anxiety disorders, 7.6% were of bipolar affective disorder, 5.8% were of schizophrenia and only 1.7% patients were of other psychiatric disorders.

Conclusion: From present study, it has been concluded the onset of psychiatric illness usually occur in young adults, mostly in males, living in nuclear families of the urban region. The most common illness were depression and substance abuse disorders. Hence special attention should be paid to young adults and adolescents as this group of individual is most vulnerable group to suffer from psychiatric and substance abuse related disorders.

Keywords: Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Substance Abuse.

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Corresponding Author

Dr Manu Arora. MBBS, MD (Psychiatry)

Assistant Professor, Government Psychiatric Diseases Hospital, Jammu, J&K, India