Schizoaffective disorder about 57 cases
Introduction Schizoaffective disorder remains relatively unknown today compared to other psychiatric disorders. This disorder is however recognized by the international medical classifications DSM 5 and mainly affects many people. Objectives Describe the socio-demographic and contextual clinical...
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Introduction
Schizoaffective disorder remains relatively unknown today compared to other psychiatric disorders. This disorder is however recognized by the international medical classifications DSM 5 and mainly affects many people.
Objectives
Describe the socio-demographic and contextual clinical characteristics of patients with schizoaffective disorder
Methods
We conducted a descriptive retrospective study including patients with schizoaffective disorder (DSM 5) in the psychiatric department G at Razi hospital and who were hospitalized for a period of 1 year from 1 January to 21 December 2020. We collected 57 patients.
Results
The average age of our sample is 40.16 years. The majority of patients (75.4%) were single and the school level did not exceed secondary studies in 64.9% of cases. Most of these patients were unemployed previously working as a day laborer in 47.4%. In addition, the type of schizoaffective disorder was dominated by the bipolar type (94.7%). These patients had a personality disorder in 26.3% mainly schizoid. The psychiatric interview of these patients revealed irritable mood in 47.4%, inappropriate affects in 59.6%, speech of a maniac in 52.6%, delusions of persecution and grandeur in 70.2% with intuitive mechanism (47.4%) and hallucinatory (auditory 45.6%). Disorganized behavior in 50% and catatonic behavior in 5.3% Mental automatism and morbid rationalism in 29.8% Insomnia: 94.7% and concentration disorder: 56.1% Type of treatment was the combination of atypical antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and benzodiazepines 33.3% with regular follow-up in 49.1%
Conclusions
Schizoaffective disorder is one of the most misdiagnosed psychiatric disorders in clinical practice and the need to know its characteristics is a necessity.
Disclosure
No significant relationships.
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| spelling | doaj.art-91d815713f3041878f11616adde49b252023-11-17T05:05:45ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852021-04-0164S812S81210.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.2147Schizoaffective disorder about 57 casesI. Kammoun0Psychiatry G, RAZI UHC, Tunis, Tunisia Introduction Schizoaffective disorder remains relatively unknown today compared to other psychiatric disorders. This disorder is however recognized by the international medical classifications DSM 5 and mainly affects many people. Objectives Describe the socio-demographic and contextual clinical characteristics of patients with schizoaffective disorder Methods We conducted a descriptive retrospective study including patients with schizoaffective disorder (DSM 5) in the psychiatric department G at Razi hospital and who were hospitalized for a period of 1 year from 1 January to 21 December 2020. We collected 57 patients. Results The average age of our sample is 40.16 years. The majority of patients (75.4%) were single and the school level did not exceed secondary studies in 64.9% of cases. Most of these patients were unemployed previously working as a day laborer in 47.4%. In addition, the type of schizoaffective disorder was dominated by the bipolar type (94.7%). These patients had a personality disorder in 26.3% mainly schizoid. The psychiatric interview of these patients revealed irritable mood in 47.4%, inappropriate affects in 59.6%, speech of a maniac in 52.6%, delusions of persecution and grandeur in 70.2% with intuitive mechanism (47.4%) and hallucinatory (auditory 45.6%). Disorganized behavior in 50% and catatonic behavior in 5.3% Mental automatism and morbid rationalism in 29.8% Insomnia: 94.7% and concentration disorder: 56.1% Type of treatment was the combination of atypical antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and benzodiazepines 33.3% with regular follow-up in 49.1% Conclusions Schizoaffective disorder is one of the most misdiagnosed psychiatric disorders in clinical practice and the need to know its characteristics is a necessity. Disclosure No significant relationships. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0924933821021477/type/journal_articlepsychiatric interviewschizoaffective disorderpersonality disorder |
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