Annual treated psychopathological morbidity demographic and diagnostic features findings from Kuwait Psychological Medicine Hospital 2002

Abstract EN

Despite extensive studies on the epidemiology of mental disorders and advances in the treatment of these conditions, there is a paucity of detailed information concerning the characteristics of psychiatric patients and how treatments are administered in routine psychiatric practice.

This 2002 observational study collected information of 1532 patients on demographic, diagnostic, clinical, and treatment characteristics.

Nine hundred and sixty of the participants (62.7%) were men.

Nine hundred and eighteen (59.9%) were Kuwaitis.

The most common diagnostic category (36.6%) was mood disorder, followed by anxiety disorder (12%), schizophrenia (10.1%), and acute psychotic episode (7.9%).

Non-Kuwaitis were more often given the diagnosis of schizophrenia/acute-psychotic episode (26.1%), compared to Kuwaitis (12.4%).

Patients received a mean of 2.83 psychotropic medications.

Three hundred and ninety seven required admission (25.9%), whereas (74.1%) were treated as our patients.