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Physical morbidity in elderly psychiatric inpatients
— prevalence and possible relations between the major mental disorders and physical illness | | Author(s) | Dimitrios Adamis, Chris Ball |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 15, no 3, March 2000 |
| Pages | pp 248-253 |
| Keywords | Psychogeriatric patients ; Mental disorder ; Ill health ; Correlation. |
| Annotation | This is a retrospective case note review of all 79 subjects aged 65 and over admitted to inpatient beds in two hospitals' old age psychiatric wards over a 6-month period. Demographic characteristics, psychiatric diagnosis, number of physical illnesses and number of body systems affected were collected. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare the psychiatric groups on continuous outcome data, and chi squared test to compare psychiatric groups on category data. 75% of subjects had at least one physical illness. The number of medical illnesses was independent from the psychiatric disorder. Subjects with mood disorders, and especially depression, were most likely to suffer from hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease than those with schizophrenic or organic disorders. Those with organic disorders had the lowest prevalence of endocrine disease and diabetes. The high levels of physical morbidity experienced by these patients has implications for the training of those caring for them and the location of old age psychiatry services. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000502018 A |
| Classmark | LF:E: E: CH: 49 |
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