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A study of clinical correlates and socio-demographic profile in conversion disorder

AIM: To study the clinical presentations and relationship of socio-demographic variables with conversion disorder. METHODS: Forty patients admitted to the department of psychiatry, Assam Medical College and Hospital, Dibrugarh, during November 2004 to August 2005 who fulfilled the inclusion criteria...

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Autores principales: Deka, Kamala, Chaudhury, Pranit K., Bora, Kavery, Kalita, Pranab
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2902095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20661388
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.37323
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author Deka, Kamala
Chaudhury, Pranit K.
Bora, Kavery
Kalita, Pranab
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description AIM: To study the clinical presentations and relationship of socio-demographic variables with conversion disorder. METHODS: Forty patients admitted to the department of psychiatry, Assam Medical College and Hospital, Dibrugarh, during November 2004 to August 2005 who fulfilled the inclusion criteria of the study were evaluated for socio-demographic variables and clinical presentations on a semi-structured pro forma. RESULTS: Conversion disorder is more common in young adults (57.5%), females (92.5%) and among students belonging to nuclear family of lower socioeconomic status. A majority of the patients had an obvious precipitating factor, of which family-related (40%) and school-related (30%) problems accounted for the major types. Motor symptoms were the predominant presentation (87.5%) with pseudo seizure being the commonest.
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spelling pubmed-29020952010-07-26 A study of clinical correlates and socio-demographic profile in conversion disorder Deka, Kamala Chaudhury, Pranit K. Bora, Kavery Kalita, Pranab Indian J Psychiatry Brief Communication AIM: To study the clinical presentations and relationship of socio-demographic variables with conversion disorder. METHODS: Forty patients admitted to the department of psychiatry, Assam Medical College and Hospital, Dibrugarh, during November 2004 to August 2005 who fulfilled the inclusion criteria of the study were evaluated for socio-demographic variables and clinical presentations on a semi-structured pro forma. RESULTS: Conversion disorder is more common in young adults (57.5%), females (92.5%) and among students belonging to nuclear family of lower socioeconomic status. A majority of the patients had an obvious precipitating factor, of which family-related (40%) and school-related (30%) problems accounted for the major types. Motor symptoms were the predominant presentation (87.5%) with pseudo seizure being the commonest. Medknow Publications 2007 /pmc/articles/PMC2902095/ /pubmed/20661388 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.37323 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Deka, Kamala
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A study of clinical correlates and socio-demographic profile in conversion disorder
title A study of clinical correlates and socio-demographic profile in conversion disorder
title_full A study of clinical correlates and socio-demographic profile in conversion disorder
title_fullStr A study of clinical correlates and socio-demographic profile in conversion disorder
title_full_unstemmed A study of clinical correlates and socio-demographic profile in conversion disorder
title_short A study of clinical correlates and socio-demographic profile in conversion disorder
title_sort study of clinical correlates and socio-demographic profile in conversion disorder
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2902095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20661388
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.37323
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