PHYSICAL ILLNESS IN PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS*

Of the 85 psychiatric patients taken for the study 45 (52.9%) had physical illnesses. Results showed that 84.4 % physically ill patients remained unrecognised at the time of psychiatric consultation. A significantly higher percentage of physically ill patients were drawn from larger families of lowe...

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Autores principales: Mahendru, R.K., Gupta, A.K., Bahal, D.K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1987
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927251
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description Of the 85 psychiatric patients taken for the study 45 (52.9%) had physical illnesses. Results showed that 84.4 % physically ill patients remained unrecognised at the time of psychiatric consultation. A significantly higher percentage of physically ill patients were drawn from larger families of lower socio-economic status. Significantly higher number of physically ill patients had psychiatric problems of longer duration. Severe types of physical illnesses were mainly found in schizophrenics. Respiratory system was most frequently involved.
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spelling pubmed-31724862011-09-16 PHYSICAL ILLNESS IN PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS* Mahendru, R.K. Gupta, A.K. Bahal, D.K. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Of the 85 psychiatric patients taken for the study 45 (52.9%) had physical illnesses. Results showed that 84.4 % physically ill patients remained unrecognised at the time of psychiatric consultation. A significantly higher percentage of physically ill patients were drawn from larger families of lower socio-economic status. Significantly higher number of physically ill patients had psychiatric problems of longer duration. Severe types of physical illnesses were mainly found in schizophrenics. Respiratory system was most frequently involved. Medknow Publications 1987 /pmc/articles/PMC3172486/ /pubmed/21927251 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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PHYSICAL ILLNESS IN PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS*
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