Psychiatric Disorders and Disabilities among Leprosy Patients in Turkey

Volume: 18 Number: 3 September 1, 2010
  • Vesile Şentürk
  • Afşin Sağduyu
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Psychiatric Disorders and Disabilities among Leprosy Patients in Turkey

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate psychiatric morbidities and disabilities due to physical and psychological problems among patients with Leprosy. Method: The study was conducted among all patients with Leprosy in the inpatient units of all the Leprosy hospitals in Turkey between March-June 2001. A total number of 65 inpatients with Leprosy were included in the study. The patients were assessed by the Composite Diagnostic Interview- Primary Health Care Version (CIDI-PHCV) and the Brief Disability Questionnaire (BDQ), and a Sociodemographic and Clinical Information Form (SCI). Risk factors such as age, gender, lenght of hospital stay, having active disease, duration of illness, having visible and nonvisible deformities, comorbidities, and disabilities for psychiatric disorders were also evaluated in the study. It was the first use of CIDI-PHCV to investigate psychiatric morbidity in patients with Leprosy. Results: The leading diagnostic distribution of the subjects according to ICD-10 criteria were current depressive episode (12%), generalized anxiety disorder (12%), persistent somatoform pain disorder (12%) and recurrent brief depressive episode (9%). When disability was evaluated for each diagnostic group of psychiatric disorders individually, only the difference between the disability scores of the patients with and without current depressive episode in accordance with ICD-10 was found to be significant (p=0.04). Conclusion: Rate of depression seen among patients with Leprosy was similar to general society and lower than other chronic diseases. But, anxiety disorder was more frequent in patients with Leprosy when compared to general population. The patients had moderate loss of functionality. By considering very low socioeconomic status of hospitalized patients with Leprosy in Turkey, psychiatric support should be positioned as a part of social rehabilitation system

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Turkish

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Authors

Vesile Şentürk This is me

Afşin Sağduyu This is me

Publication Date

September 1, 2010

Submission Date

September 1, 2010

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Published in Issue

Year 2010 Volume: 18 Number: 3

APA
Şentürk, V., & Sağduyu, A. (2010). Türkiye’de Leprası olan Hastalarda Psikiyatrik Morbidite ve Yetiyitimi. Kriz Dergisi, 18(3), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1501/Kriz_0000000321