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Background: The current study compared severity of anxiety and depression patients of NCCP and other medical conditions in male adults.Methods: Sample consisted of consenting male patients from cardiology OPD with symptom of chest pain, whereas control group consisted of patients without symptoms of chest pain, aged between 18 to 60 years. Exclusion criteria for both groups included unstable or life-threatening medical conditions, psychosis, substance use disorders, or any psychiatric illness. Both experimental and control group were evaluated with history, clinical examinations and indicated investigations. The socio demographic data sheet and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was applied, patients were asked to read all 14 question and place a tick against the reply representing their feelings, the answers were rated with Likert pattern of scoring. The collected data statistically analyzed.Results: A total of 51 patients of experimental group with mean age of 44.82±7.63years and 76 control with mean 46.30±8.45 years were participated for this study. The mean HADS anxiety score for NCCP was 13.29±3.42 and for the group of other patients it was 11.06±3.54 (t value=-3.517, df=125 and p value=0.001). Whereas the mean HADS depression score for NCCP was 12.58±2.76 and for the group of other patients it was 10.90±2.26 (t value=-3.743, df=125 and p value=0.000).Conclusions: NCCP is associated with significantly higher anxiety and depression in comparison to other medically ill patients.
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Prevalence of headache among patients with psychotic disorder: a cross sectional cohort study. Aims-We plan thisstudy to explore the prevalence of headache among psychotic disorders. Methods : It was a cross sectional observational study. All subjects were assessed for inclusion – exclusion criteria, and on qualification they were requested to fill up Socio-demographic data sheet or asked verbally and filled up by investigators. Results-A total of 245 subjects with mean age of 35.38 years (± 5.17 years) with mean duration of psychotic illness of 2.32 ± 0.54 Years, 53.87% males and mostly belonging to hindu religion 80.40% and 64.08 %were unemployed.There was headache among 189 (77.14 %) of the sample, Migraine consisted 22.85%,Tension headache consisted 43.26 %, Cervicogenic headache 7.75% and remaining was others or unspecified types of headache 3.26%. Conclusions-This study finds a prevalence of 77.14 % of headache among psychotic patients, that includes migraine among 22.85%; tension headache 43.26%; cervicogenic 7.75 % amd others or unspecified 3.26%.
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Aims—We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of anemia among patients of Chronic Kidney disease, who are not requiring dialysis in a retrospective chart review. Methods— : It was a retrospective chart review study, all documents either as hard copy or electronically stored of diagnosed cases of CKD were assessed for inclusion – exclusion criteria, and on qualification their small Socio-demographic data sheet was filled up and available lab reports were recorded in tabulated form. Results— A total of 140 subjects were included for the study, 91 patients (65 %) were male and 35 % (n=49) were female. Based on blood hemoglobin estimation a total of 108 patients had anemia, which consisted of 77.1% of the total sample size. Conclusions— This study finds a prevalence of 77.1 % of anemia among CKD.
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Objective: To assess gender and socio demographic factors and its association with suicidal attempts. Methods: A total sample size of 70 persons who attempted suicide at a general hospital setup were included and investigated for the study. All subjects were assessed with their socio-demographic profile and all persons were subjected to standard psychiatry interview, mental status examinations and appropriate psychiatric diagnosis was given. Results: A total of 70 persons consisted of 28 males and 42 females, who attempted suicide were investigated for this study, mean age of total sample was 29.55 ± 8.35 years. Methods used for suicidal attempt in this study was using medication overdose or pesticide, that constitute as 51.4 % of the sample, 30% attempted by wrist slashing, hanging by 8.6%, Neck slashing by 5.7% and finally 4.3% by drowning. Among the suicide attempters 32.9% had no diagnosis, Acute stress and adjustment problems were 35.75%, Depression constituted 20%, and personality disorders was among 11.4%. Conclusions: The present study revealed female male ratio of 1.5: 1in attempted suicide subjects with predominantly method of was using drug overdose or consuming pesticide, about 35 % of the reasons can be attributed to acute stress and adjustment issues.
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This study was done to measure psychiatric morbidity and associated sociodemographic variables among visually impaired children. 92 students of age range 6-20 years from four schools for the blind, in Ranchi, were screened with verbal Hindi translation of General Health Questionnaire-60. Diagnostic Interview Schedule – Parent version was applied to establish psychiatric diagnosis on primary caretakers of those who scored above cutoff. Fourteen scored above cutoff and psychiatric diagnoses of 8 children were established. The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among visually impaired children was found to be 8.69%. No socio-demographic variable was associated with the occurrence of psychiatric illness.