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ASSESSMENT OF SOCIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC TRAITS AND DETERMINANTS OF DISEASE PATTERN AMONG HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS

Dr Hafiz Muhammad Umar Amin, Dr Farhana Rashid, Dr Farhat Ullah Khan,

Background and Objective: There is an important role of the Inpatient therapy of the psychiatric patients for their better administration. There is very low amount of the beds available for the patients suffering from mental abnormalities in our country Pakistan. Some of the patients are in need of long stay in the hospital. The medical institutes are try to meet this need in our country. This research work aimed to assess the social and economic traits as well as to determine the pattern of disease with the therapeutic procedures in the hospitalized patients. Methodology: The data about the DSM-IV identification, social and economic identification, whether they obtained pharmacotherapy or ECT, total period of the stay of the patients during hospitalization at the Psychiatry Department of the Mayo Hospital Lahore from January 2015 to November 2018 retrieved retroactively. All the information transferred to the collection form for data of the patients. Microsoft excel software was in use for the assessment of the collected information. Results: In the duration of this research work, a sum of total sixteen hundred patients, 49.0% (n: 294) females and 51.0% (n: 306) males got admission to receive the treatment. Average age of the patients was 36.45 ±12.74. Regarding marital status, the patients with marriage and regarding the distribution of the occupation, there was dominancy of the housewives. Average period of the hospitalized stay of the patients in the clinic was 31.90 ± 27.30 days. In terms of diagnosis by the DSM-IV-R of patients, the major frequent diagnosis was disorder of mood in 33.0% (n: 198) patients, psychotic disorder present in 25.60% (n: 154) patients and disorder of anxiety in 19.0% (n: 114). Conclusion: To evaluate the health institution’s functionality and effectiveness of the provided services, it is necessary to collect, assess and interpret the data constantly and thoroughly. It supports to display the condition of the institution of the health care and it is also beneficial for the formulation of the policies in the healthcare field in whole country. KEY WORDS: Psychiatric Patients, Health Care, Pharmacotherapy, Traits, Therapeutic, Disorder.

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