Morbidity Profile of Patients Attending Neuropsychiatric Opd at the Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara

Upadhayay, K D; Dutta, S; Singh, Gurdeep

doi:10.31729/jnma.1673

J Nepal Med Assoc

2003

DOI: 10.31729/jnma.1673

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Morbidity Profile of Patients Attending Neuropsychiatric Opd at the Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara

K D Upadhayay¹,

S Dutta²,

Gurdeep Singh³

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“…Our finding is in accordance to Shrestha MR et al who observed that 32.3% patients were in the age group of 21-30 years.1 Our finding can further be supported by Fahmida A et al who observed that 42% patients were between 18 to 27 years and 35% were between 28 to 37 years. 2 Similar findings were also observed by other studies 6,7,8,9,10,11,12.…”

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

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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.

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Morbidity profile of patients attending the centers for mental health service provided jointly by the Government of Nepal and Community mental health service of Community Mental Health and Counseling- Nepal (CMC-Nepal)

Upadhyaya

Nakarmi

Prajapati³

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J Psychiatr Assoc Nepal

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Introduction: Community mental health program initially conducted in Lalitpur district by UMN and later in the western region demonstrated the possibility of providing mental health services in the primary health care level if proper mental training is provided to different levels of health workers and the program is well supervised. Community Mental Health and Counseling- Nepal (CMC-Nepal) extended the same model of community mental health program to several other districts of the country after taking permission from the Ministry of Health and Population. The basic objective of the study was to prepare morbidity profile of patients attending the centers for mental health conducted jointly by the government of Nepal and Community Mental Health and Counseling- Nepal (CMC-Nepal). Material and method: Ten days block training in mental health for health assistant (HA) and Auxiliary Health Workers (AHW) was conducted by the CMC-Nepal. Senior psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurse were the trainers. Materials like mental health manual, audiovisuals, flip charts and case stories were used during training by the facilitators. An especially developed patient record card was used for case record, diagnosis and treatment. The study was carried out in between July 2010 to June 2011. A total of 6676 cases were studied during the study period. Results: Community mental health program identified 4761 total new cases in 12 months (July 2010 to June 2011), out of which 2821 were females (59%) and 1940 were males (41%). Similarly total old cases both females and males were 6676 registered in these centers for treatment. Out of all new cases patients with Anxiety Neurosis emerged as the largest group (50%) followed by Depression (24.88%). Other commonly diagnosed conditions were Epilepsy (7.5%), Psychosis (5.3%) and Conversion disorder (5.7%) and unspecified cases (6.5%). The implications of the results are discussed, in the current context. Conclusion: Mental health services need to be provided at the community so as to prevent cases of prolonged subjection to mental illness and also prevent cases of stigma and discrimination. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpan.v2i1.8569 J Psychiatrists’ Association of Nepal Vol .2, No.1, 2013 14-19

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Socio-demographic and clinical profile of patients attending a mental health camp: A study from Kanchanpur district of western Nepal

Khan¹,

Belbase²

2014

J Psychiatr Assoc Nepal

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Background: Mental health is an ignored area of general health care system despite the magnitude of problem and financial burden on families and whole country. In our country, psychiatric services are out of reach to majority of population because of inadequate mental health professionals, lack of awareness and lack of proper mental health policy. This study is conducted with the objective to know socio-demographic and diagnostic profile of patients from a mental health check up camp conducted at Belauri, Kanchanpur district from far western region of Nepal. Material and Methods: This is a descriptive study, comprised of all consecutive participants i.e. 128 patients attending Maryknoll mental health check up camp at Belauri town of Kanchanpur district, Nepal. The Study was performed in March 2013. Socio-demographic data and clinical diagnosis based on International Classification of Disease- 10 diagnostic research criteria were collected and analyzed. Results: Out of 128 subjects studied, highest number of participants (35.94%) belonged to age group 21- 30 yrs followed by age group 11-20 yrs (18.75%) and age group 31-40 yrs (16.40%). The most common psychiatric morbidity was found to be Neurotic, stress related & somatoform disorders (23.45%) followed by mood disorder in 24 (18.75%) patients and Headache (Migraine & Tension type) in 18 (14.07%) patients. Conclusion: The commonest age group affected with mental illness is younger age groups and Neurotic, stress related & somatoform disorders are the most common psychiatric morbidity followed by mood disorders. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpan.v2i2.9724 J Psychiatrists’ Association of Nepal Vol.2, No.2, 2013 35-38

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Morbidity Profile of Patients Attending Neuropsychiatric Opd at the Western Regional Hospital, Pokhara

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

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

Morbidity profile of patients attending the centers for mental health service provided jointly by the Government of Nepal and Community mental health service of Community Mental Health and Counseling- Nepal (CMC-Nepal)

Socio-demographic and clinical profile of patients attending a mental health camp: A study from Kanchanpur district of western Nepal

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