Socio-demographic and clinical profile and utilization pattern of antipsychotic drugs among psychiatric out-patients
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Pharmacology - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: Drug prescribing pattern varies in different geographical areas as it is influenced by patient characteristics, type of disease prevalent, cultural and environmental factors, available drugs and prescribing habit of physicians. Aim: To find out the socio demographic details utilization pattern of antipsychotic drugs among psychiatric out-patients in Department of Psychiatric Diseases Hospital, Government Medical College, Jammu. Material and Methods: A total of 700 prescriptions of psychiatric outpatients were evaluated. Each patient’s demographic and clinical profiles, disease classification, pharmacological class of drug prescribed was noted down. Results: Mean age of the study population was 37.26 years and maximum patients were young in the age group of 21 to 30 years (29.86%) with male to female ratio of 1.26:1.Rural to urban ratio was 1.68:1.There were 54.43% unemployed subjects and 63% patients had monthly income in the range of Rupees 5,000 to 10,000.Most of the patients were either educated less than high school (38.86%) or were illiterate (37.28%) and were unmarried (51.29%).History of smoking and alcohol consumption was present in 34.71% and 23% respectively. Most of the patients came from nuclear family (58.86%).1752 psychotropic drugs (range 1-5) were prescribed, average being 2.50. Conclusion: The current study calls upon the authorities to make more availability of psychiatric specialists in the rural areas and even the literacy rate should be improved to tackle these disorders which are over looked in their set up.
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Rashmi Sharma, Brij Mohan Gupta, Rakesh Banal
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