Evaluation of psychiatric consultations in Yazd Shahid Sadughi general hospital

摘要

Introduction Early diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders among hospitalized patients with other physical problems is an important step in diagnosis and treatment of the patients. Co morbidity diagnosis could help both the physician and his/her patient.Materials and methods: In this hospital based, case series study, profiles of all of the patients who were referred to a psychiatrist during their stay in different wards of a general hospital was examined. Data were collected using a checklist based on the objectives of the study for analysis of the written records of consulted psychiatrist. Data were analyzed using SPSS-V13. Results Out of a total of 90 patients with psychiatric consultation, 79 patients had psychiatric comorbidity. 44% of the referrals were from internal medicine discipline. Depression outnumbered all the other psychiatric disorders (51.1%) followed by anxiety (15.6%). Conclusion With a high prevalence of depression and anxiety in hospitalized patients, physicians have to consider mental illnesses while treating non- psychiatric patients.