Bibliographic citations
Vargas, E., (2016). Prevalencia y características epidemiológicas de esquizofrenia en el Hospital Iquitos 'César Garayar García', periodo 2010 - 2014 [Tesis, Universidad Científica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14503/2075
Vargas, E., Prevalencia y características epidemiológicas de esquizofrenia en el Hospital Iquitos 'César Garayar García', periodo 2010 - 2014 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Científica del Perú; 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14503/2075
@misc{renati/1037444,
title = "Prevalencia y características epidemiológicas de esquizofrenia en el Hospital Iquitos 'César Garayar García', periodo 2010 - 2014",
author = "Vargas Hemeryth, Ericka Melissa",
publisher = "Universidad Científica del Perú",
year = "2016"
}
The aim of this study wvas to identify and analyze the prevalence and epidcmiological characteristics of patients treated wvith schizophrenia in "Hospital Iquitos 'César Garayar García", during the years 2010 to 2014. It's a descriptive, obscrvational and rctrospective study that was performed using thc technique of audit of mcdical records. The study population were all patients with schizophrenia, from the Psychology and Psychiatry's departmcnts, who were trcatcd in the ycars 2010 to 2014. Patients admitted to the study had wvritten medical records legibly. The prevalence of schizophrenia in this hospital during the years 201 O to 2014 was 0.027%. 151 cases (51% female and 49% male) aged 16 to 75 years were studied in total. We found that currently the most affected group were young adults, betwveen 21 to 30 years corresponding to 31.1% ofparients. Both sexes hada predomination of patients from the !quitos district making them the 46% ofthe total. Those who hadan earlier onset of the disease were adolescents and adult-youths aged 16 to 25 years, wvith 62.2% of the total. Most patients had the high school education complete, corresponding this to 51 %. A 48.3% of the study population are found not currcntly cxcrting any kind of work or tradc, being the minority, the 2%, who hada permanent job. The outstanding marital status was 'single', with 74.2%, the minority wvere married and widowcrs, forming the 9.9% and 1.3% respcctivcly. The diagnostic subtype wvith more prevalence was paranoid schizophrenia with 92.7%. From the total cases, 16.6% of patients have a comorbidity being cpilepsy the predominant with 8.6%. 17.2% of patients statcs that thcy continuc consuming alcohol and/or drugs at present, despitc thcir drug treatmcnt and 25.2% of the paticnts had a prcvious suicide attempt. Extended and nuclear familics prevailed, both wvith 38.1 %. 72.2% of patients have a living father and 81.5% had a living mothcr; in most of the cases, both parents have secondary education and independcnt work. Thc pcrccntage for parcnts wvho had some kind of mental illness is 4% for fathers and 6.6% for mothers. A 35.8% of patients diagnosed wvith schizophrenia report having children and 74.8% of patientsreport having siblings. 29.1% ofthe studicd cases reported havinga familymembcr with schizophrcnia, predominating thirddcgree relativcs with 11.3%. 33.1% of the studicd cases reportcd having a family member with mental illness other than schizophrcnia; predominating relatives with cpilepsy andpersonality disorders. The year where thcrc was more attentions to patients with schizophrenia were in the 2010 with 49.7% ofthe total studied cases. A 603% of patients wcnt to thc Hospital Iquitos bcfore the 2010, meanwhile the 39.7% are necases that went from that year and on. The department that realized most of the attentions to the patients diagnosed wvith schizophrenia between the years 2010 and 2014were the dcparment of PSYCHIJ\TRY with the 98.7% of the cases followed by the department of PSYCHOLOGY vith42.4%, bothdepartments shared sorne cases.
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