همه گيري شناسي اختلالات روانپزشكي در ايران ، سال 1380

An epidemiological study of psychiatric disorders in Iran, 2001

Nowadays the burden of psychiatric disorders has been identified in developed countries by screening questionnaires and standard clinical interviews at a high level, but there has been conducted few investigation to study the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in our country, comprehensively. The aim of this survey was to estimate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders in the individuals of 18 years and above in urban and rural areas of Iran. For this purpose, 25180 individuals were selected through a randomized systematic and clustered sampling method among the families of the country. Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS) with 904 questions was accomplished on them by 256 clinical psychologists throughout the country in the year 2001 as well. The results of this study showed that the prevalence of total psychiatric disorders was 17.10 percent. The prevalence rate in the women was 23.4 per cents and in men was 10.86percent. Anxiety and mood disorders, respectively, with 8.31 and 4.35 per cents were the most common psychiatric disorders. The prevalence of psychotic disorders in this study was 0.89 percent, neuro-cognitive disorders 2.78 percent and dissociative disorders was 0.77 percent. In the group of mood disorders, the major depression with 2.98 percent and in the group of anxiety disorders, the phobic disorder with 2.05 percent had higher prevalence. In this study 10.87 percent of individuals suffered from one of the psychiatric disorders. The prevalence of psychiatric disorders among the individuals between the ages of 41-55 years with 12.62 percent, divorced and separated persons with 22.31 percent, the residents of urban areas with 11.77 percent, illiterate individuals with 13.80 percent, housewives with 14.48 percent and unemployed individuals with 12.33 percent was more than other individuals in the sample. Being aware of the status, reveals the responsibility of health policy makers and programmer and the role of prevention, treatment and medical education more than before in relation to prepare natinal plans for mental health.