Schizophrenia in psychiatryservice’s patients

Abstract

Introduction: the mental disorders represent 11% of all the illnesses in the world, if measures are not adopted, this proportion will rise to 14% in 2020. 

Objective:to describe clinical and demographically the schizophrenia in psychiatry service’ patient.

Material and Method: it was carried out an observational, descriptive and cross sectional study, in psychiatry service’ patient of the Hospital “Comandante Pinares", San Cristobal, Artemisa, during 2019. Universe: 79 patients, being worked with the entirety of the cases. The study of the clinical histories allowed the obtaining of the information that gave exit to the studied variables. They were used for their presentation methods of descriptive statistic. The medical ethics was respected. 

Results: the patients prevailed between 25 and 34 years of age (30,4%), half age 37,4 years old, standard deviation of 12,2; and masculine (51,9%). The main clinical manifestations were disintegration of the thought (91,3%) and disorganized behavior (84,8%). The paranoid form (59,5%) was the most representative. The main used neuroleptic was the haloperidol (72,2 %) and the trifluorperacine (48,1%). 55,7% had a fairly favorable clinical evolution.  

Conclusions: the patients between 25 and 34 years of age and masculine are prone to make sick of paranoid schizophrenia presenting as cardinal symptoms the disintegration of the thought and the disorganized behavior. The treatment with neuroleptics like haloperidol and trifluorperacine allows that the same ones have fairly favorable evolution.