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First rank symptoms in mania: An indistinct diagnostic strand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

A. Channa ,
S. Aleem  and
H. Mohsin
A. Channa*
Affiliation:
Liaquat National Hospital, Psychiatry, Karachi, Pakistan
S. Aleem
Affiliation:
Agha Khan University, Psychiatry, Karachi, Pakistan
H. Mohsin
Affiliation:
Liaquat National Hospital, Psychiatry, Karachi, Pakistan
*
* Corresponding author.

Abstract

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First rank symptoms (FRS) are considered to be pathognomic for schizophrenia. However, FRS is not distinctive feature of schizophrenia. It has also been noticed in affective disorder, albeit not inclusive in diagnostic criteria. Its existence in the first episode of bipolar disorder may be predictor of poor short-term outcome and decompensating course of illness.

Objective

To determine the frequency of first rank symptoms in manic patients.

Method

The cross sectional study was done at psychiatric services of Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. One hundred and twenty manic patients were recruited from November 2014 to May 2015.FRS was assessed by administration of validated Urdu version of Present State Examination (PSE) tool.

Result

The mean age of the patients was 37.62 + 12.51. The mean number of previous manic episode was 2.17 + 2.23. In total, 11.2% males and 30.6% females had FRS. This association of first rank symptoms with gender in patients of mania was found to be significant with a P value of 0.008. All-inclusive, 19.2% exhibited FRS in their course of illness, 43.5% had thought broadcasting, made feeling, impulses, action and somatic passivity, 39.1% had thought insertion, 30.4% had auditory perceptual distortion, and 17.4% had thought withdrawal. However, none displayed delusional perception.

Conclusion

The study confirms the presence of FRS in mania in both male and female, irrespective of the duration of current manic illness or previous number of manic episodes. A substantial difference was established between both the genders.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
EW25
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S120
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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