Clinical features of psychiatric inpatients with obsessive compulsive disorder

Year 2017, Volume: 42 Issue: 1, 140 - 146, 31.03.2017

Gonca Karakuş , Lut Tamam

https://doi.org/10.17826/cutf.280163

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of study as to determine the clinical and sociodemographic charecteristics
of the inpatients admitted in Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and were hospitalized with the diagnosis of
obsessive-compulsive disorder between the years 2006-2015. Patients were
grouped according to the gender, age of onset and the family history of
psychiatric disorders and these groups were compared.

Material and
Methods: Patients who had been diagnosed with
obsessive compulsive disorder according to DSM IV TR and were hospitalized in
Cukurova University Faculty of Medicine Balcalı Hospital Department of
Psychiatry between 01 January 2006-31 December 2015. Data were obtained from
hospital records of patients. Sociodemographic and clinical data form was
filled by scanning previous patient files.

Results: 41 of the patients were female (57,7%) and 30 of them were male (42,3%).
Mean age of patients was 25±10,04; first treatment age was 27,75±9,19 and mean
duration of untreated illness  was 32,82±48,06
months.  There was a significant
difference in patients, when first treatment age and mean duration of untreated
illness were examined by gender. In patients with family history of
obsessive-compulsive disorder, the mean duration of untreated illness  was higher.

Conclusion: In the light of the findings, some important
differences were found between patient groups in sociodemographic, clinical
characteristics and primary sympthoms in obsessive-compulsive disorder. The
study which determined wider and homogeneous distribution samples in this
subject and at same time meeting patients and their families can contribute to
identify disease’s clinical features more detailed.

Keywords

Obsession, compulsion, inpatients

Yatarak tedavi gören obsesif kompulsif bozukluk hastalarının klinik özellikleri

Abstract

Amaç:. Bu çalışmada, psikiyatri servisinde yatarak tedavi gören obsesif
kompulsif bozukluk tanılı hastaların sosyodemografik ve klinik özelliklerinin
belirlenmesi; hastalık başlangıç yaşının, tedaviye başvurana kadar geçen
sürenin ve özkıyım girişiminin sosyodemografik ve klinik değişkenlerle
ilişkisinin değerlendirilmesi amaçlanmıştır.

Gereç ve
Yöntem: Çalışmada 2006-2015 yılları arasında
yatarak tedavi gören obsesif kompulsif bozukluk hastalarının dosyaları
değerlendirilmiş; sosyodemografik ve klinik değişkenler belirlenmiş; cinsiyete,
ailede ruhsal hastalık ve obsesif kompulsif bozukluk varlığına göre değişkenler
arasındaki farklar araştırılmıştır.

Bulgular: Çalışmaya 41 kadın, 30 erkek 71 hasta dahil edildi. Hastalığın
ortalama başlangıç yaşı 25±10.04; ilk tedavi yaşı 27.75±9.19; hastalık
belirtilerinin başlamasından ilk tedaviye kadar geçen süre 32.82±48.06 ay
olarak belirlendi. Kadınlarda ilk tedavi yaşının ve başlangıç ile ilk tedavi
arasındaki sürenin fazla; ailede obsesif kompulsif bozukluk öyküsü olan
hastalarda tedavisiz geçen sürenin anlamlı olarak yüksek olduğu saptandı.

Sonuç: Obsesif kompulsif bozukluk sonlanım açısından  ciddi risk faktörleri olan bir kronik
bozukluktur. 

Keywords

Obsesyon, kompulsiyon, yatan hasta

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