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Sociodemographic Profile and Pattern of Psychiatric Presentation of Patients coming to the Emergency Unit of General Hospital Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in West Bengal

BACKGROUND: Psychiatric emergencies are characterized by acute conditions of disturbances of affect or mood, behaviour, and thoughts, if not managed with immediate therapeutic intervention can cause great harm to the patient and surroundings. In most of the institutions due to lack of emergency psyc...

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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9129465/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.341742
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description BACKGROUND: Psychiatric emergencies are characterized by acute conditions of disturbances of affect or mood, behaviour, and thoughts, if not managed with immediate therapeutic intervention can cause great harm to the patient and surroundings. In most of the institutions due to lack of emergency psychiatric units, these are managed by general hospital emergency units which is the reason for underreporting of psychiatric cases in developing countries like India. AIM: To study sociodemographic profile and pattern of psychiatric presentation of patients coming to the Psychiatric Emergency Unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in West Bengal. METHODS: This prospective, longitudinal, hospital-based study was conducted for a period of 6 months on patients attending the Psychiatric Emergency Unit of tertiary care teaching hospital in West Bengal. Sociodemographic and clinical details of the patient, source, and reason for referral, presenting complaints were recorded and analysed. RESULTS: Out of 200 patients attending the Psychiatric Emergency Unit, most were female between the age of 21-40 years. The three most prevalent presenting complaints among subjects were abnormal behaviour with somatic complaints, excitement, and violent behaviour followed by substance use. The foremost reason for a referral from other departments were either due to absence of any physical illness or no abnormalities detected in the investigations conducted. CONCLUSIONS: The results from the study could help in gaining knowledge regarding emergency psychiatric conditions, increase preparedness for their rapid management, and improvement of emergency psychiatry services to meet the mental healthcare demands in our country.
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spelling pubmed-91294652022-05-25 Sociodemographic Profile and Pattern of Psychiatric Presentation of Patients coming to the Emergency Unit of General Hospital Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in West Bengal Indian J Psychiatry Free Papers Compiled BACKGROUND: Psychiatric emergencies are characterized by acute conditions of disturbances of affect or mood, behaviour, and thoughts, if not managed with immediate therapeutic intervention can cause great harm to the patient and surroundings. In most of the institutions due to lack of emergency psychiatric units, these are managed by general hospital emergency units which is the reason for underreporting of psychiatric cases in developing countries like India. AIM: To study sociodemographic profile and pattern of psychiatric presentation of patients coming to the Psychiatric Emergency Unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital in West Bengal. METHODS: This prospective, longitudinal, hospital-based study was conducted for a period of 6 months on patients attending the Psychiatric Emergency Unit of tertiary care teaching hospital in West Bengal. Sociodemographic and clinical details of the patient, source, and reason for referral, presenting complaints were recorded and analysed. RESULTS: Out of 200 patients attending the Psychiatric Emergency Unit, most were female between the age of 21-40 years. The three most prevalent presenting complaints among subjects were abnormal behaviour with somatic complaints, excitement, and violent behaviour followed by substance use. The foremost reason for a referral from other departments were either due to absence of any physical illness or no abnormalities detected in the investigations conducted. CONCLUSIONS: The results from the study could help in gaining knowledge regarding emergency psychiatric conditions, increase preparedness for their rapid management, and improvement of emergency psychiatry services to meet the mental healthcare demands in our country. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-03 2022-03-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9129465/ http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.341742 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Psychiatry https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Sociodemographic Profile and Pattern of Psychiatric Presentation of Patients coming to the Emergency Unit of General Hospital Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in West Bengal
title Sociodemographic Profile and Pattern of Psychiatric Presentation of Patients coming to the Emergency Unit of General Hospital Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in West Bengal
title_full Sociodemographic Profile and Pattern of Psychiatric Presentation of Patients coming to the Emergency Unit of General Hospital Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in West Bengal
title_fullStr Sociodemographic Profile and Pattern of Psychiatric Presentation of Patients coming to the Emergency Unit of General Hospital Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in West Bengal
title_full_unstemmed Sociodemographic Profile and Pattern of Psychiatric Presentation of Patients coming to the Emergency Unit of General Hospital Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in West Bengal
title_short Sociodemographic Profile and Pattern of Psychiatric Presentation of Patients coming to the Emergency Unit of General Hospital Psychiatry Department of a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital in West Bengal
title_sort sociodemographic profile and pattern of psychiatric presentation of patients coming to the emergency unit of general hospital psychiatry department of a tertiary care teaching hospital in west bengal
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9129465/
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.341742