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P02-241 - Comparing the Prevalence of Psychoticism and Paranoid Ideas Between two Wards of Internal Medicine and A&E (2005–2006)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2020

N. Amanat
Affiliation:
Nursing, Rehabilitation and Welfare University, Tehran, Iran
B. Behnam
Affiliation:
Semnan Medical Science, Semnan, Iran
R. Ghorbani
Affiliation:
Semnan Medical Science, Semnan, Iran
A. Imani
Affiliation:
Semnan Medical Science, Semnan, Iran
H.R. Khankeh
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation and Welfare University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

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Objectives

Some psychological disorder-comorbid with a medical diagnosis-presents a challenge for treatment because of diagnostic and treatment dilemmas. This study investigated associations between Psychoticism and Paranoid ideas in internal medicine and A&E1patient in a university hospital.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, we checked 150 patients of internal medicine department and 150 patients, who have admitted to the A&E department as a control group. They have chosen by a Purposive accessible sampling method. The psychopathological profile was assessed using the SCL-90 questionnaire by Iranian version. Data have been computed and analyzed by SPSS V.17 and we used t-student, Mann-Whitney tests and logistic regression methods. The results have been considered significant when the two tailed p-value was less than 0.05.

Results

In internal ward 70% and A&E department 43.3% of patient have had Paranoid ideas (OR= 4.2; 95% CI, 1.9 to 8.9). Psychoticism were observed in 38% of internal medicine patients and 20% of A&E's patients (OR= 7.64; 95% CI, 3.2 to 17.8).

Conclusion

The present results confirm the high prevalence rate of Psychoticism and Paranoid ideas in patients that hospitalized in internal to A & E ward. Recommendation are made to further investigate by greater sample size and different setting in this field is warranted.

Type
Personality and behavioral disorders
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2010

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