Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-x24gv Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-05-15T22:04:09.869Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Dual Diagnosis and Medical Co-morbidity: Data from a Specialized Brief Psychiatric In-patient Unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

M. Gomez Revuelta ,
M. Juncal Ruiz ,
O. Porta Olivares ,
L. Sanchez Blanco ,
D. Abejas Diez ,
G. Pardo de Santayana Jenaro ,
R. Landera Rodriguez ,
N.I. Nuñez Morales  and
L. Garcia Ayala
M. Gomez Revuelta
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario de Álava-Sede Santiago, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Psychiatry, La Penilla, Spain
M. Juncal Ruiz
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Psychiatry, Santander, Spain
O. Porta Olivares
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Psychiatry, Santander, Spain
L. Sanchez Blanco
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Psychiatry, Santander, Spain
D. Abejas Diez
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Psychiatry, Santander, Spain
G. Pardo de Santayana Jenaro
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Psychiatry, Santander, Spain
R. Landera Rodriguez
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Psychiatry, Santander, Spain
N.I. Nuñez Morales
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario de Álava-Sede Santiago, Psychiatry, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
L. Garcia Ayala
Affiliation:
Hospital Universitario de Álava-Sede Santiago, Psychiatry, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Introduction

Previous research on the prevalence of medical disorders among adults with dual diagnosis (DD) has been inconclusive.

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to assess dual diagnosis and medical co-morbidity at the Brief Psychiatric Inpatient Unit of Marqués de Valdecilla Hospital, Santander in the period from January 2014 until March 2015.

Methods

Ninety-three patients were admitted at our hospital from December 2014 until March 2015. The simple was analyzed retrospectively. Sixty-two of the patients (66.7%) met criteria for Dual Diagnosis. We collected socio-demographic variables, drug abuse, mental pathology, and treatment received.

Results

The mean age of the sample was 42.95 years (± 14 DS) with a male:female ratio of 1.8:1 (no significant differences by gender). Hypertension was more prevalent among patients without dual pathology (22.5%). Patients with dual diagnosis presented hypertension less likely (6.5%) (P < 0.005). This can be explained by the fact that patients without dual diagnosis had a higher mean age (47 years) than patients with dual diagnosis (42 years). We did not found statistically significant differences between both groups respect to diabetes mellitus, vascular brain disease, HIV and dyslipidemia.

Conclusions

Hypertension was less likely to appear among patients with dual pathology admitted to an ultra brief psychiatry unit. This could be explained for an earlier mean age at admission among these patients.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster walk: Co-morbidity/dual pathologies and guidelines/Guidance – part 1
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S137
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
Submit a response

Comments

No Comments have been published for this article.