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Burden of common mental disorders in patients with functional dyspepsia
Abdul Sattar1, Mohammad Salih, Wasim Jafri
1Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi.
Objective:
To assess the frequency of common mental disorders among diagnosed functional dyspepsia patients.
Methods:
A case-control study with 150 cases of functional dyspepsia (FD) and 150 healthy controls were recruited from Gastroenterology Clinic at the Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi from 1st March 2009 through 31st August 2009. Urdu version of WHO-developed Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ) was administered to diagnose patients of FD and healthy controls. A cut off score of 8 on SRQ was used to confirm cases of Common mental disorders (CMD). Data was entered and analyzed by SPSS version 16.0.
Result:
There was significant difference in CMD i.e. 107 (71.33%) versus 23 (15.33%) in cases and controls respectively (p- <0.001). Among cases CMD was more common in females i.e. in 57 (80.3%) as compared 50 (63.3%) in males (p- 0.022).
Conclusion:
There is high prevalence of Common mental disorders among patients with functional dyspepsia and this needs to be addressed while treating patients.
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