In-patient psychiatric referrals in a teaching hospital: a case controlled report

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• 作者：Adeyemi ; Joseph Dada
• 关键词：Psychiatric referrals ; Controls ; Infectious diseases ; In-patients ; Physical etiology
• 刊名：Journal of Psychosomatic Research
• 出版年：1996
• 出版时间：November, 1996
• 年：1996
• 卷：41
• 期：5
• 页码：427-433
• 全文大小：364 K

文摘

The 77 (47 females, 30 males) in-patient referrals to the Psychiatric Department of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, over a 1-year period, were compared with a control sample of 75 (45 females, 30 males) unreferred patients. The low referral rate of 0.8 % , after excluding deliberate self-harm (relatively infrequent in Nigeria), was comparable to reports in Western literature. Treatable minor psychiatric morbidity, mainly anxiety and depressive disorders, occurred in 41.3 % of the controls. Sixty-eight percent of those referred had definite mental disorders, most commonly psychoses (50.7 % ), especially delirium (29.9 % ). Infectious disorders, notably Salmonella typhi infection, were the most predominant physical etiological factors. The results are discussed and the implications highlighted.