Characteristics of Patients Admitted to a Psychiatric Unit in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Northeast India: A 3 Year Retrospective Study
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: In-patient care of psychiatric patient remains an important aspect in the care of mental and behavioural disorders. Some of the patients are very aggressive and they are risk of causing harm to self and to others, which remain unmanageable at home. Therefore, it is important to admit them and provide necessary care in tertiary hospital. The study of the pattern of psychiatric in-patient is therefore pertinent to determine the sociodemographic and clinical factors for mental health planning. It is aimed at determining the characteristics of in-patient admission in the psychiatric ward of tertiary care hospital in Northeast India over a period of 3 year. It is a retrospective case file analysis of all patients admitted between Jan 2022 to Dec 2024 in psychiatry ward of JNIMS, Imphal East. Total of seven hundred and eight patient was admitted and analysed. The majority of the patients were males (560 out of 708). The mean age of males was 38.65 years, while the mean age of the females was 28.02 years. The maximum number of patients is in the 30-39 age group which is 195 out of 708 (27.5%), followed by the 20-29 age group (160, which is 22.6%). Alcohol dependence syndrome (ADS) was found to be maximum with 418 out of 708 (59%) followed by depression (51 or 7.2%), then by dissociative order and ODS (48 or 6.8% and 45 or 6.4% respectively).
Authors: Nelson L, K Shantibala, Arambam Carol
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4417458797