Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Patients Treated for Schizophrenia: A Cross-sectional Study in the Psychiatric Department of Oujda, Morocco

Overview

Journal Ann Med Surg (Lond)

Publisher Wolters Kluwer

Specialty Medical Education

Date 2022 May 31

PMID 35637999

Authors

Salah-Eddine El Jabiry

Mohamed Barrimi

Bouchra Oneib

Fatima El Ghazouani

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Abstract

Materials And Methods: We conducted a descriptive and analytical cross-sectional study over a period of three months from October 2019 to December 2019 at the Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Diseases of the University Hospital Center Mohammed VI of Oujda.

Results: The number of patients included in our study was 187 and the majority of them were male with a percentage of 76%. Several variables were evaluated. The prevalence of PTSD in the patients included in our study is 14%. In addition, the statistically significant variables were the presence of a stressful event (p = 0,001), the positive schizophrenia symptom score (PANSS P) (p = 0,031), the negative schizophrenia symptom score (PANSS N) (p = 0,005), the general schizophrenia symptom score (PANSS G) (p = 0,021), suicide risk (p < 0,001), and the presence of depression (p = 0,004).

Conclusion: The comorbidity schizophrenia-PTSD exists with non-negligible prevalence. The risks of non-diagnosis of this comorbidity could lead to inappropriate treatments, a multiplication of care with no notable clinical improvement, poor therapeutic compliance and the alteration in the patients' quality of life.

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