Journal of Psychiatry

Abstract

Quality of life Among Patients With Delusional Disorder: A Cross Sectional Comparative Analytical Study

Md. Shahedul Islam, Akhanji MMU, Rahman MM, Abedin MF, Saha CK, Rashid MH, Uddin MN

 Delusional disorder is a major psychiatric disorder. It is regarded as being an uncommon illness. Memory and other cognitive processes are intact in patients. This disorder affects deeply the function and feelings of subjects and impacts negatively on quality of life. We found out the quality of life in patients with delusional disorder with that of general population and order of impairment among domain of social relationship, environment domain, psychological and physical health. This was a descriptive, cross-sectional, comparative and analytical study. The study was conducted in the depatrment of psychiatry, Cumilla Medical College, Cumilla. 40 Patients with delusional disorder who fulfilled inclusion criteria was selected as sample. Clinical diagnosis of patients was done by consultant psychiatrist with Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders (SCID-I CV). Then Bengali version of WHO Quality of Life Scale brief version (WHOQOL BREF 1998) was applied to evaluate quality of life of different domains including social relationship, environment domain, psychological and physical health. Semi structural questionnaire were used for collecting sociodemographic information. In this process of study age and sex matched 40 healthy controls from hospital staff and patient’s attendants without physical or psychiatric illness were recruited for comparison. Data were analyzed by Statistical Package for Social Science Version 19. The study revealed that mean score of overall quality of life of patients were 3.21 and healthy controls were 3.85, mean score of overall health of patients were 3.04 and healthy control were 3.78, mean score of social relationship domain of patients were 2.11 and healthy control were 3.92, mean score of environment domain of patients were 2.63 and healthy control were 3.45, mean score of psychological domain of patients were 3.00 and healthy control were 3.88, and mean score of physical health domain of patients were 3.18 and healthy control were 3.96. Result of this study may help to encourage further research.

Published Date: 2021-10-30;