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Substance Use Disorders Among Patients with Acute Psychotic Episode

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Last updated: 22 Jan 2023

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Background:Substance use is the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances. Psychosis is a serious mental condition that involves the person's losing contact with reality, to a greater or lesser extent, and is most often associated with certain mental illnesses like schizophrenia. There is strong evidence that substance abuse is associated with a greater risk of developing psychosis. Aim:To clarify the role of substance abuse among patients with acute psychotic episodes. Subjects and Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design was done including 98 adults (above 12 years old) with Acute Psychotic episodes, the study was carried out in the outpatient clinic of Suez Canal Area Hospitals.The data was collected through close-ended self-administered 2 questionnaires and a clinical examination. Results: There is only a statistically significant difference in sub-type of PANSS test between substance abuser group and non-abuser group regarding PANSS-N (p=0.013), PANSS positive subtype only in suspiciousness/persecution between substance-users (82.9%) and non-users (96.7%), there is a statistically significant difference between a substance abuser and non-abuser regarding Motor retardation only of PANSS-GP with the majority was for the non-abuser group, the majority was for non-abuser group50.8 % (p value.004), there is no significant difference between substance users and non-users regarding Eysenck. Conclusion:There is a high rate of substance-induced psychosis among patients with acute psychotic episodes.
 

DOI

10.21608/scumj.2022.260900

Keywords

Symptoms Scale, Eysenck Questionnaire

Authors

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Shymaa

Last Name

Karem

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M.

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Port Said Mental Health Hospital

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drshymaakarem@gmail.com

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port said

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Ashraf

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Tantawy

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Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt

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tantawy99@hotmail.com

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Ismailia

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First Name

Omneya

Last Name

Ibrahim

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Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt

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wishfairy67@hotmail.com

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Ismailia

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First Name

Haydy

Last Name

Hassan

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S.

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Department of Psychiatry and Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Egypt

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drhaydy@yahoo.com

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Ismailia

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0000-0003-2002-4942

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25

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3

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36846

Issue Date

2022-10-01

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2022-09-23

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2022-10-01

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1110-6999

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2090-2581

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Suez Canal University Medical Journal

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22 Jan 2023