ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Sirirat Kooptiwoot, M.D., Kavi Suvarnakich, M.D., Wajjanin Rohitsuk, Ph.D.(applied behavioral studies), Samorn Ariyanuchitkul, MSc.(mental health, nurse)

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Identified Psychiatric Patients and Other Psychiatric Patients in Their Families.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: Journal of The Psychiatric Association of Thailand, Vol. 43 No.3 July-September 1998; P 240-251.

รายละเอียด / Details:

Abstract: Twenty-five identified psychiatric patients and 27 other psychiatric patients in their families in this prospective and comparative study were part of those from the family therapy clinic, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, during January to December 1997. We found that in each family there were 48 per cent of family members having mental disorders according to the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. Seventy-six per cent of these 25 families had more than one psychiatric patients in a family. Twenty families (80 per cent) had at least one family member having the same opinion as the therapist team having about who were other patients in their families. Identified psychiatric patients were 16 men and 9 women. Most of them were young adult and adolescent, single and being sons or daughters. Half of them were studying in primary and secondary schools. Nearly one-third were unemployed. The four common diagnoses were major depressive disorder, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia and adjustment disorders. Other psychiatric patients in the families were 12 men and 15 women. Most of them were in middle adulthood, married, working, educated, and being father, mother or husband, wife. The most common diagnoses were personality disorders (37 per cent) and other common diagnoses were adjustment disorders, psychological factors affecting medical condition (tension headache), alcohol abuse and dependence. Identified psychiatric patients were different from other psychiatric patients in the families statistical significantly at p ‹ 0.05 in 5 aspects which were age, occupation, marital status, family status and major diagnoses in axis I or axis II. The result of this study showed that most of the families of psychiatric patients having family problems had more than one psychiatric patient in a family. If all of the patients receive treatment, the treatment outcome will be excellent.

Keywords: identified psychiatric patients, other patients in a family, family therapy

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 1998

Address: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700.

Code: 0000084

ISSN/ISBN: 0125-6985

Country of publication: Thailand.

Language: English.

Category: Abstract Journal.

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