01828nas a2200145   4500000000100000008004100001100001400042700001900056700001300075245009800088856008300186300001200269490000600281520139500287       2019                            d1 aKrishna A1 aMascarenhas JJ1 aMathai P00aPsychiatric Morbidity in Patients with Leprosy in a Tertiary Care Centre: Case-Control Study.  uhttps://www.ijrrjournal.com/IJRR_Vol.6_Issue.7_July2019/Abstract_IJRR0018.html  a127-1370 v63 aBackground: Patients with leprosy have a relatively higher risk of psychiatric morbidity. Research reports indicate that they are due to the stigma & ignorance associated with the illness & social variables like emotional, social& health mal-adjustments. There are only limited number of studies investigating the frequency & nature of psychiatric morbidity in leprosy patients.
Objectives: To evaluate the frequency & nature of psychiatric disorders in patients suffering from leprosy & to study the relationship between psychiatric morbidity in patients with leprosy & the socio-demographic & clinical variables.
Methodology: One hundred & forty subjects,100 leprosy & 40controls with chronic dermatological disorders were evaluated. Tools used were ICD-10 AM symptom checklist to screen for & diagnose psychiatric disorders, Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) to assess psychopathology & Socio-economic Status Schedule(SESS) to assess socio-demographic variables.
Results: Depressive disorders were the most common psychiatric morbidity in patients with leprosy, but there were no significant differences in the frequency & nature of psychiatric disorders in patients with leprosy when compared to the control group. The psychiatric morbidity in leprosy patients does not have significant statistical relationship with socio-demographic & clinical variables studied.