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P0086 - Delirious profile of Morrocan schizophrenics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
Abstract
The delirium in the schizophrenia can be polythematic, and some delirious thematics are widespread in some cultures, and triggered sometimes by specific events.
The aim of this study is to identify the delirious profile of Moroccan schizophrenics, and precise themes of the delirium and their relationship with religious, social and toxic events .
It is a retrospective study, taking schizophrenic patients hospitalized in the academic psychiatric unit of Marrakech, valued by an hetero questionnaire (60 patient recruited currently)
The middle age of patient is 29 years, with a masculine predominance of 91.7%, 83.3% of patients are unmarried and 21.7% are illiterate .
95% of patients are paranoid schizophrenics, the middle length of disease's evolution is 64.4 months and the length of the recent episode is 10. 10 weeks.
Events triggering has been recovered in 70% of cases: 11.7% are religious events, 3.3% social, and 61.7% toxic events.
The mystical theme in relation with God was present in 6.7% of patients, and with a divine mission in 23.3%. The megalomaniaque theme in relation with the king recovered in 8.3%, in relation with richness in 15%.
Patients are persecuted by indicated persecutors in 88.3%; 40% of patients felt enchanted and 11.7% possessed by diabolic strengths. The hallucinatory mechanism is recovered in 98.3% of patients, the intuitive mechanism in 51.7% and interpretative in 15%.
The delirious profile depends on the culture and the adherence to the delirium is reinforced by cultural, social and religious beliefs and events.
- Type
- Poster Session I: Schizophrenia and Psychosis
- Information
- European Psychiatry , Volume 23 , Issue S2: 16th AEP Congress - Abstract book - 16th AEP Congress , April 2008 , pp. S105
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2008
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