Syndrome Dyspepsia in the Population of Jakarta Indonesia

Abstract

Purpose: One third of patients who go to the medical practitioners, and half of the patients who go to the gastroenterologist have this syndrome dyspepsia. The purpose of this study is to know the epidemilogy of syndrome dyspepsia in the population of Jakarta indonesia and other factors related to syndrome dyspepsia. Methods: This epidemiological study was done with interview method to 1645 patients that represent all of the Jakarta's population. The selection of patients using the cluster random sampling in which every area represented by one area and the patient was interviewed randomly. Syndrome dyspepsia was defined if there are symptoms of epigastric pain and epigastric discomfort lasting for more than 1 month. Analysis was done by stata program after corrected with the certain factor. Interview was done on every selected patient after being given informed consent by the person who were in charge to do the interview and by signing the consenting form. Results: The proportion of syndrome dyspepsia was 58.1%. The most frequent patient in syndrome dyspepsia was female 59.1%, mean of age 44.05 yo ± 10.72 years. The frequent symptom were nausea 30.1%, epigastric pain 28.7% etc. In the dyspeptic patients, 25.85% patients has a smoking habit, 2.58% patients consumed alcohol. There was a trend to get syndrome dyspepsia in patients who have anxiety, depression, who consumed NSAID (P= 0.000). Conclusion: The proportion of syndrome dyspepsia in Jakarta population was 58.1%. Syndrome dyspepsia was more frequent in female, who has anxiety, depression and who consumed NSAID.