Delusions of schizophrenia a clinical study on a group of Iraqi patients in Diwaniya Teaching Hospital and al-Rashad Mental Hospital

Abstract EN

A-Diwaniya teaching Hospital, and sixty chronic schizophrenic patients from Al- Rashad Mental Hospital (30 males, 30 females) were cross-sectionally studied during the period from 1st Jan., 2008 to 1st Aug., 2008.

The results of the current study revealed that the frequency of delusions among the schizophreniform group of patients were significantly higher than among the chronic schizophrenic ones.

Highly significant correlation between delusions and educational level was found; the higher the educational level the more frequent were the delusions.

There was no significant association between delusions and some other sociodemographic factors such as age, sex and marital status.

The findings of this study are in accordance to the findings reported from different cultures; Western and non-Western ones.