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Delusional disorder: Retrospective analysis of 86 Chinese outpatients
Author(s) -
Hsiao MeiChun,
Liu ChiaYih,
Yang YongYi,
Yeh EngKun
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00624.x
Subject(s) - delusional disorder , psychiatry , depression (economics) , medicine , retrospective cohort study , psychology , pediatrics , surgery , psychosis , economics , macroeconomics
Patients who visited the psychiatric outpatient service of Chang Gung Medical Centre, Tao‐Yuan, Taiwan during an 8‐year period were studied retrospectively. Among the 10 418 outpatients, 86 (0.83%) were diagnosed as having DSM‐IV delusional disorder (DD), including 61 (70.9%) with persecutory type, 12 (14.0%) with the mixed type, seven (8.1%) with jealous type, two (2.3%) with somatic type, two (2.1%) with unspecified type, one (1.2%) with erotomanic type, and another one with grandiose type. The ratio of women to men was 0.86. The mean age at onset was 42.4 ± 15.41 years, with women being older than men. Thirty‐seven cases (43.0%) presented with depressive symptoms at their first visit. Subjects were divided into four groups: persecutory type, jealous type, mixed type and others. There were no significant differences between the four groups in terms of gender, age at onset, time‐lapse before seeking psychiatric help, the presence of hallucination or the presence of depression.