Prevalence of psychiatric co-morbidity among patients attending dental OPD and the role of consultation-liaison psychiatry in dental practice in a tertiary care general hospital
| Autor: | De S, Ray Bhattacharya S, Ghosh S, Majumder U, Makhal M, Pradip Kumar Ray |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Dental Specialty Tertiary care Mental status examination C-L psychiatry Liaison psychiatry Chi-square test Medicine Anxiety Original Article General Health Questionnaire medicine.symptom business Psychiatry co-morbidity dental practice Depression (differential diagnoses) |
| Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Dentistry |
| ISSN: | 0975-962X |
| Popis: | Background: Psychiatric co-morbidities are frequent among patients attending dental OPD, some of which go unrecognized and hence untreated. Aims: The present study has been carried out to detect the psychiatric co-morbidities among dental patients and determine the scope of consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatry in a rural teaching hospital regarding comprehensive management of the patients. Settings and Design: This cross-sectional, descriptive type study was conducted in a multi-speciality tertiary care teaching hospital in the northern part of West Bengal, India. Materials and Methods: One hundred patients attending the dental OPD were randomly included in the study and every patient was consecutively referred to psychiatry department for assessment, during the period from 1 st November 2013 to 30 th April 2014. All referred patients were clinically examined and psychiatric co-morbidity was assessed by the help of General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)-28 and Mental Status Examination. Statistical analysis used: The data were subjected to statistical package for social sciences (SPSS), version 16, and statistically analyzed using Cross tab and Chi test. P |
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