Background: Now a days mental and behavioural disorders are common in the community. Globally, some 450 million persons suffer from a mental or behavioural disorder contributing to 13% of global burden of disease.1TheServices are provided by psychiatric hospitals where assessments are carried out by psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and sometimes psychiatric social workers, using various methods but often relying on observation and questioning. Even this is done in the community. Thus on the basis of these observations we have drawn the conclusionof epidemiological variants among the patients.
Aims & Objective: To assess the frequency of various epidemiological trends in patients in mental hospital and to study associated risk factors in them.
Material and Methods: 118 patients out of 237 in mental hospital were selected on random basis. On predesigned Performa, various details were noted and the data was analyzed in epi info 7.
Results: There were 48.3% females and 51.7% males. There were 87 cases of schizophrenia and 19 case of bipolar disorder in manic phase. The 57.98% of patients present with behaviour abnormality and 43.45% of patients have the abnormal BMI and 24.25% of patients of patients have primary education level. The 81.21% of people were not working.
Conclusion: Resources and service for the mental disorder are comparatively low as compared to the burden of the disease. Thus by studying the various epidemiological correlations we can plan certain preventive measures so that mental disease burden could be decrease. Looking to the etiopathology, found in our study it is recommended that counseling should also be a part of management and importance should be given to environmental or social factors like education living standards etc. for prevention of mental disorders.
Key words: Epidemiological variants, Mentally ill patients, Mental hospital
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