Features of hallucinations in schizophrenia

The hallucinations are common and have an important role in diagnosing schizophrenia. Objectives: To describe and to follow-up the evolution of the hallucinations in schizopprenia. 40 schizophrenic in patients in accordance with ICD.10 criteria, who have hallucinations, are treated by anti - psychotics in National Institute of Mental Health from September 1999 to November 2000. Methods: using the method of cross - sectional study. Results: The hallucinations of the patients were: 92.5% had auditory hallucination, 12.5% had visual hallucination and 2.5% had olfactory hallucination. Most of auditory hallucinations are comment, located in head. 91.6% hallucinations are disappeared when the patients were treated by antipsychotics. Conclusions: Most of hallucinations are auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations and olfactory hallucination. Hallucinations are likely sensitive to antipsychotics

Primary assessment on the causes of mental treatment delay for psychotic patients (among psychotic patients who are the first treated at mental health service of National Institute of Mental health)

A cross – sectional study on 40 psychotic patients who were treated in National Institute of Mental Health from March to December 2003 showed that the causes of delay for the patients go to mental health services are onset of mental disorders, lack of knowledge on mental health of patients and their relatives (75%), short of caring for patients (30%), unavailability of mental health services (10%) and difficulties of expenses (10%)

Features of hallucination in schizophrenia

The hallucination are common and have an important role in diagnosing schizophrenia. Objectives: To describe and to follow up the evolution of the hallucination in schizopprenia. 40 patients with schizophrenia met to ICD.10 criteria and have hallucination were treated by anti-psychotic drugs in National Institute of Mental Health from September 1999 to November 2000. Methods: cross - sectional study. Results: The hallucination symptoms in the patients were: 92.5% had auditory hallucination, 12.5% had visual hallucination and 2.5% had olfactory hallucination. Most of auditory hallucination was comments located in head. 91.6% hallucinations were disappeared when the patients were treated by anti-psychotic drugs. Conclusions: Most of hallucinations are auditory, visual and olfactory. Hallucinations are likely sensitive to anti-psychotic drug.

Comparison of three methods: Giemsa, Paracheck, Polymerase chain reaction in detection of malaria parasite at Daksong commune, Krongchro district, Gialai province, June 2002

Using both three methods of Giemsa, Paracheck and Polimerase chain reaction (PCR) determined P.falciparum in P. falciparum malaria children patients under 10 years old after 14 days dosed with antimalarial drugs and healthy Bana minority people in Daksong commune, Krongchro district, Gialai province in June 2002. The sensitivity and specificity of Paracheck were found to be 91.37%, 86.1% respectively as compared to Giemsa method and 77.3% and 97.7% as compared to PCR. The sensitivity and specificity of Giemsa method was 77.3% and 100% respectively. By using PCR, 3 of 25 samples negative with Giemsa and 20 samples negative with Giemsa Paracheck were detected to be positive at the day 14 after administration with Fansidar or artesunate