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Acute psychiatric admission related to the menstrual cycle
Author(s) -
Luggin R.,
Bernsted L.,
Petersson B.,
Jacobsen Aa. Tholund
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1984.tb02520.x
Subject(s) - danish , menstrual cycle , medicine , psychiatry , menstruation , psychiatric hospital , pediatrics , demography , philosophy , linguistics , hormone , sociology
– A study of menstrual cycle phase on the day of acute admission to a psychiatric hospital for 121 women aged 20–39 showed an unequal distribution of admissions. More admissions than expected took place in the menstrual period, and correspondingly fewer intermenstrually. The difference was significant, and points to a certain degree of cyclicity in female psychiatric disturbance. This cyclicity was not significantly influenced by age, diagnosis, oral contraceptives or tendency for premenstrual symptoms. In the age group 20–39 one and a half times as many men as women are admitted to Danish psychiatric departments. Thus, in view of a common baseline, the most conspicuous feature is, that remarkably few women were admitted intermenstrually.