Abstract
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The phenomena of negative symptoms of long stay schizophrenic patients were studied at AL- Rashad Mental Teaching Hospital for three hundred patients one hundred fifty females and hundred fifty males. OBJECTIVE: To identify the prevalence of negative symptoms in long stay schizophrenic patients, and to study the relationship of negative symptoms with sociodemographic factors. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A cross sectional study and semi –structured psychiatric interview based on ICD 10 criteria together with a symptoms check list were used to assess the negative symptoms among our sample, during seven months from first January to first August 2007. RESULTS: The results revealed that all those patients had negative symptoms ,and the commonest one in male patients was poor self care (83%) , followed by marked apathy(66.7%) ,while in female patients ,the commonest was non verbal communication(80%),followed by blunted affect(74%) . CONCLUSION: The negative symptoms were very common in long stay schizophrenic patients. And there is different gender distribution
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Shaker, Aziz Salim
(2011)
"Prevalence of Negative Symptoms in Chronic Long Stay Schizophrenic Patients at AL-Rashad Mental Teaching Hospital,"
Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal: Vol. 10:
Iss.
3, Article 22.
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https://ipmj.researchcommons.org/journal/vol10/iss3/22