Psychiatric illness and attitudes to psychiatry among general hospital out-patients
โ Scribed by A. G. Mezey; I. A. Syed
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 502 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1433-9285
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## Objective: To determine the mental morbidity rate and types of disorders in elderly patients admitted to non-psychiatric wards of a teaching hospital in nigeria; the ability of the non-psychiatrists to recognise the mental disorders was also assessed. ## Method: All subjects aged 60 years and
One hundred and fourteen elderly medically ill day patients were interviewed in order to assess the prevalence of DSM-111-R main psychiatric disorders. Dementia affected 14.0% of the subjects, major depression 20.3%, dysthymic disorder 4.4%, atypical depression 13.2%, other disorders 3.6%. Overall,