Incidence Of Psychiatric Diagnosis Research Articles

Retrospective Review of Forensic Cases Referred to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic

Background: The aim of this study is to explore the cause of forensic report orders, socio-demographic characteristics and comorbid mental disorders in children and adolescents passed to court for any reason and referred to a child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinical by judicial authority in Şanlıurfa province. Materials and Methods: In this study, we retrospectively reviewed files of 64 cases which referred to a child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinic for forensic psychiatric assessment between December, 2018 and December, 2020. The socio-demographic characteristics, the event underlying referral, coverage of question asked by judicial authority, smoking or alcohol and substance abuse, intelligence level, comorbid mental disorders and socio-demographic characteristic of parents were reviewed in children referred by judicial authorities. We used the Chi-square test to compare socio-demographic characteristics and comorbid psychiatric diagnoses and The Mann Whitney U test to compare numerical variables. Results: It was found that 46.9% of the children were referred due to juvenile delinquents while 12.5% due to being subjected to abuse and 25.0% due to early marriage. Of the juvenile delinquents, 90% were boys with median age of 15 years while 62.5% of victims were girls with median age of 13.5 years. The findings show that 63.3% of juvenile delinquents and 62.5% of victims were not attending to school. The incidence of psychiatric diagnosis was 53.3% among juvenile delinquents while it was 50% among victims. All of the children presented with request of early marriage were girls with median age of 16 years. The results show that 43.8% of cases were pregnant at presentation and 93.8% did not receive education appropriate for their age. Conclusions: It was found that more than one-half of juvenile delinquents and victims were not attending school in that study. In addition, it was found that male gender preponderance was observed among juvenile delinquents. There is a need for further studies to determine groups of under risk.

Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients admitted to the consultation-liaison psychiatry clinic in a university hospital

Consultation-liaison psychiatry is an area of psychiatry researching the links between general medicine and psychosocial situations, and deals with the diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of psychiatric disorders and psychosocial problems accompanying physical diseases. The aim of this study is to review the sociodemographic data and treatment approaches for patients admitted to the consultation-liaison psychiatry unit of a university hospital within one year. The sociodemographic and clinical information for patients admitted to the consultation-liaison psychiatry unit of our hospitalÂ’s psychiatry ward from August 2015 to November 2016 were obtained by retrospectively investigating the hospital database and patient files and uploading the information to a structured form. Patients in the psychiatry ward were admitted by transfer with 64.9% from the clinic, 16.2% from the emergency service and 10.8% from other wards. The most common physical disease diagnosis of patients was neurologic diseases for 51.4%, endocrinologic diseases for 16.2% and other disease groups for 21.6%. The incidence of psychiatric diagnoses placed according to DSM-V were identified, in order, as psychotic disorders (18.9%), depressive disorders (16.2%), mental retardation (13.5%), somatic symptom disorders (13.5%), bipolar disorder (10.8%), personality disorders (8.1%), oppositional disorder (5.4%), anxiety disorders (5.4%), impulse control and behavior disorders (5.4%) and neurocognitive disorders (2.7%). A total of 10.8% of patients had suicidal thoughts, with 8.1% passive and 2.7% active. Inpatients admitted to our CLP unit, a high rate of 10.8% was identified to have suicidal thoughts. The association of increased suicide risk with many medical diseases shows the necessity of enquiring about suicidal thoughts for each patient. Cooperation between other clinics and CLP will be helpful in increasing the quality of service and offering a more holistic approach to these patients. It appears there is a need for broader cooperation in the area of consultation liaison. This data is considered to form a basis for future studies.

The incidence of psychiatric diagnosis in chronic pain patients

The incidence of psychiatric diagnosis in chronic pain patients