A Study of Psychiatric Comorbidity in Alcohol Dependent Patients in North-West Rajasthan
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical Research Professionals - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 5
Abstract
Background: Comorbidity indicated the presence of a individual clinical existence that has survive or may occur during the clinical course of a patient having the index disease. Though alcohol is one of the usually drugs of abuse in India, yet Indian literature is discernible by its poverty. Hence we preferred to carry out this study to examine prevalence of psychiatric comorbidity in alcohol dependent patients. Materials & Methods: The present study was carried out in psychiatric O.P.D clinic in S.P. Medical College & Associate Groups of Hospitals, Bikaner, Rajasthan during July 2016 to July 2017. The sample includes 35 consecutive patients meeting DSM IV TR criteria for alcohol dependence. These patients were assessed on Semi Structured Proforma and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM –IV-TR (SCID I & II) to assess comorbidity. Results: The present study showed the out of 35 patients 23 (65.71%) were found to have comorbid mental illness. Axis I and Axis II comorbidity was found in 65.71% and 5.71% of the samples, respectively. Patients of cluster A & B personality were equally distributed in the sample. Patients with more than one comorbidity accounted for 39.13% of the sample. In our study showed the demographic profile (age, sex, marital status, religion, employment and domicile) in patients with and without comorbidity was insignificant. Conclusion: Our study concluded that mental comorbidity in alcohol dependence is very high. Number of comorbid diagnoses in a person may be as high as three which signifies poor consequence and involve that the clinician should not stop after making one or two diagnoses.
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Shri Gopal Goyal, Rakesh Kumar
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- DOI 10.21276/ijmrp.2017.3.5.032
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