CASE CONTROL STUDY OF SOCIO DEMOGRAPHIC DATA AND THYROID PROFILE OF PATIENTS COMING TO PSYCHIATRIC OUT PATIENT DEPARTMENT: A HOSPITAL BASED STUDY

Dr Pradeep Kumar; Dr Deepika Meesala

Volume : VIII, Issue : V, May - 2019

CASE CONTROL STUDY OF SOCIO DEMOGRAPHIC DATA AND THYROID PROFILE OF PATIENTS COMING TO PSYCHIATRIC OUT PATIENT DEPARTMENT: A HOSPITAL BASED STUDY

Dr Pradeep Kumar, Dr Deepika Meesala

Abstract :

Background: The term endocrinological psychiatry was coined by Laignel-Lavastine, who first used it at a psychiatric congress in Dijon in 1908 when he was encouraging his colleagues to intensify research on the interaction between personality and the endocrine system. Materials and methods: The study was conducted in the out-patient department of psychiatry, S.V.S Medical College and Hospital, Mahabubnagar, over a period of 6months. The study sample consists of 50 consecutive patients (cases) attending to psychiatry OPD and the 50 people who do not have any psychiatric morbidity (controls). Results: In the current study we found that there is statistically significant difference in thyroid levels in psychiatric patients and control population. In depression there is a statistically significant difference regarding the presence of thyroid dysfunction, hyper and hypothyroidism when compared with the control population. Conclusion: thyroid disease Hyperthyroidism is significantly present in the patients of anxiety and schizophrenia, whereas hypothyroidism is present in depression, alcohol dependence syndrome and in sexual dysfunction.