Psychological distress among patients attending a general medical outpatient clinic in Pakistan

General Hospital Psychiatry
N HusainF Creed

Abstract

It is not known whether the pattern of psychiatric disorders in medical outpatients in Pakistan is similar to that observed in the West. Consecutive medical outpatients completed the Self-Report Questionnaire (SRQ) to detect probable psychiatric disorder. The usual cut-off score of 8/9 was used. One-thousand and sixty-nine patients completed the SRQ (84% response rate) at four half-day clinics. Sixteen percent of men and 58% of women presented with medically unexplained symptoms. In men, 80% of patients with medically unexplained symptoms had an SRQ score of 9 or above (probable depressive disorder) compared to 40% of those with symptoms caused by recognized physical illness (P<.0005). In women, the respective proportions were 55.4% and 49.6% (P=.34). Depressive disorder is probably very common in medical outpatients in Pakistan, especially in men with medically unexplained symptoms. Systematic attempts to initiate antidepressant treatment in this setting should be attempted.

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Feb 21, 2009·Journal of Translational Medicine·Hossam M Ashour, Amany El-Sharif
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