authors evaluated sociocultural precipitating factors of patients in the psychiatric emer gency room. The psychiatric emergency medical charts of 314 patients evaluated during a one year period in 1993 of the Inje University Sanggye Paik
Hospital.
The number of patients who had sociocultural precipitating factors comprised 70.1%of all psychiatric emergncy patients and 85.5% of patients were female. Average numbers of manifested symptom were 1.95/patient. Anxiety, agitation, shortness of
breathing
and headache were more frequent in the patients with socioculotural precipitating factors.
Among socicultural precipitating factors, family problems with intrafamilial argument and conflict with parent-in-law, and marital problems with disharmony and extramarital affair of partner were more common than economic problems, occupational
problems, imterpersoal problems and health problems.
In diagnosis, the frequent diagnosis was conversion disorder, adjustment disorder, depression and somatization disorder in the patients with sociocultural precipitating factors in order. The admission rate (14.1% was found to be low than that of
th
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patients without sociocultural precipitating factors.
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