Experential reality: a comparative study between psychiatric patient and healthy individual

ABSTRACT

In this work, the experimental reality and to what extent it can be believable were studied by comparing an experimental group of mentally disordered patients and healthy individuals as a control group. The general health questionnaire [GHQ.30] was applied on 218 persons [109 in the experimental group and 109 in the control group]. The psychiatric diagnosis was done by semi-structured interview and diagnostic criteria of the International Classification of Psychiatric Disorders, Tenth Edition [ICD.10]. The results showed that the prevalence of Estikhara pray is more in the healthy individuals than the psychiatric disordered ones. The Estikhara pray done with a high ratio by patients with adjustment disorders and non-organic sexual disorders and with a low ratio by mood disordered patients