A study of psychiatric morbidity in patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis

C. J. Maikandaan; Praveen Kumar RS; Vivian Kapil V; Zubaida Sultana.S

Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2016

A study of psychiatric morbidity in patients suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis

C. J. Maikandaan, Praveen Kumar Rs, Vivian Kapil V, Zubaida Sultana. S

Abstract :

 Aims: To study the psychiatric morbidity in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and to see the relationship between socio demographic data, clinical variables and outcome variable (psychiatric morbidity). Methods and Material: After getting Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) clearance and informed consent, sixty subjects with pulmonary tuberculosis were recruited for the study. Screening of psychiatric morbidity was done using MINI 6.0 and patients with depression/anxiety were further administered HAM-D/HAM-A. Chi square test was used for statistical analysis. Results: 23 (38%) out of 60 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis had psychiatric co-morbidity. Among these 23 patients, 17 patients had depression and 6 patients had anxiety disorder. Statistical significant association was found between clinical variables like positive family history of psychiatric illness (x2= 4.006; ‘p’ value = 0.045), inpatient care (x2= 6.332; ‘p’ value = 0.012) and longer duration of illness (x2= 10.972; ‘p’ value = 0.001).