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THE DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF MENTALLY
ILL PATIENTS IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN
By: Dr.Syed Mubin Akhtar
Karachi Psychiatric Hospital - Karachi, Pakistan

Introduction

Scientific & Systematic data: availabe worldwide

WHO Statistic & Year of mental health-2001: highlight`s significance

1 % of all dealth & 11 % of global diseases burden-mental illness (World Health Report-2001)

Demographic profile & morbidty pattern: well establised worldwide

Introduction: (World Statistics) Salient features:

Depression-340 million

Schizophrenia-45 million

Epilepsy-45 million

Females > Males

15-44 year group > Other

Single, widowed, divorced > Married (Ref: World Health Report-2001)

Methodology

Retrospective case file / record analysis

Place-Karachi Psychiatric Hospital

Duration-From year 1981-2000

Total-case files / records-40,000

Selection-Random, every third file / record

Sample-13, 333

Data collection sheet-used to sort the data

Aims & Objectives

To identify the demographic characteristics of mentally ill in the local context

To compare the local pattern with elsewhere

To raise the need of having a better understanding of mental illnesses in local context for effective mental health care planning

Data analysis: Morbidity pattern
S.No	Major diagnosis	Frequency %
1.	Depression	26.2
	* Episode	14.5
	* Recurrent	11.7
2.	Schizophrenia	15
	* Paranoid	8.9
	* Others	1.1
	* Chronic	5
3.	Bipolar affective disorders	13
	* Hypomania	4.5
	* Mania	8.5
4.	Acute psychotic disorders	4.3
5.	Anxiety disorders	5
6.	OCD	4.3
7.	Conversion disorders	1.6
8.	Organic disorders	2.9
9.	Seizure disorder	5.9
10.	Substance dependence	1.3
11.	Sexual dysfunction's	13.1
12.	M.R. with beha. Dis.	4.5
13.	Others	4

Discussion
Regarding morbidity pattern

Depression is the most prevalent disorder

Followed by Schizophrenia, Bipolar affective disorder (Mania & Hypomania)

A great proportion in this study is of psychosexual dysfunctions

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