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The Distribution of Mental Illness Found by DIS (Diagnostic Interview Schedule) among Internal and Orthopedic Patients
Author(s) -
Nishioka Yuji,
Nishizono Masahisa,
Yamamoto Joe
Publication year - 1990
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 - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1990.tb00439.x
Subject(s) - dysthymic disorder , psychiatry , panic disorder , neuroticism , medicine , alcohol abuse , medical diagnosis , psychology , major depressive disorder , clinical psychology , anxiety , mood , personality , social psychology , pathology
In order to understand how psychiatric problems are distributed in general medical departments, we used DIS (Diagnostic Interview Schedule). The subjects are 307 inpatients and outpatients in the Departments in Internal Medicine and Orthopedics of Fukuoka University Hospital, M Hospital and N Hospital. As a result, 53.4% of all the subjects showed some psychiatric problems. These are, in a descending order, tobacco dependence (30.0%), psychosexual dysfunction (14.3%), alcohol abuse/dependence (14.0%), major depressive episode (6.5%), organic brain syndrome (4.9%), obsessive‐compulsive disorder (3.9%), dysthymic disorder (2.3%), panic disorder (2.0%) and others. Also, we discussed comparison between internal patients and neurotic patients who visited psychiatrists complaining of physical symptoms, and the incidence of DIS diagnoses in individual physical diseases.