A study on anxiety-depression and psychoticism in hospitalized patients

Abstract

The author studied the mental status of 497 patients admitted in non-psychiatric wards and 42 patients diagnosed as mental disorders by DSM-III-R criteria and admitted in three general hospitals located in Pusan city, using NADS and PSCS. The assessment were obtained from October, 1991 to March, 1992 and the results as follows: The mean SD of Anxiety-Depression scores were in non-psychiatric patients and in psychiatric patients. The psychiatric group had significantly higher scores than non-psychiatric group. The mean SD of Psychosis scores were in non-psychiatric patients and in psychiatric patients. The psychiatric group had significantly higher scores than non-psychiatric group. In the psychosocial factors, dissatisfaction in family atmosphere and acquaintanceship with parellts(P = 0.74), past and present self-images( = 0.45), present and future self images( = 0.45), past and future self-images( = 0.34) and family atmosphere and acquaintanceship with parents( = 0.49). The regression analysis revealed that present self-image, acquaintanceship with parents, future self-image, past self-image, and family atmosphere, in order of significance were to be descriptive or predicable variances for Anxiety-Depression status. The discriminant analysis according to Anxiety-Depression scores showed that the cases of incorrect classification were 22 for non-psychiatric patient group and 2 for psychiatric patient group.