Psychosocial evalution for prevalence of sleep disorders in patients of somatoform disorders visiting psychosomatic clinic in tertiary care centre, vidarbha
International Journal of Development Research
Psychosocial evalution for prevalence of sleep disorders in patients of somatoform disorders visiting psychosomatic clinic in tertiary care centre, vidarbha
Received 04th August 2017; Received in revised form 26th September, 2017; Accepted 11th October, 2017; Published online 29th November, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Ratika Sharma and Prakriti Vohra. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Introduction: Somatoform disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders in which patients present with clinically significant but unexplained physical symptoms. These disorders often cause significant emotional distress for patients and are a challenge to physicians. Somatization disorder was significantly associated with sleep disorders. Material and Methods: 270 patients with a diagnosis of any of the sub types of somatoform disorders were inducted from those attending the out-patient and in- patient services of deptt. Of Psychiatry affiliated to AVBRH, a tertiary care hospital, Vidarbha. It was a cross-sectional study carried out from October 2010 to July 2012. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) is a standardized and well proven instrument used to measure the quality and patterns of sleep in diagnosed patients of somatoform disorders. Results: A total of 120 out of 270 (44.44%) were having a positive score of more than 5 on PSQI. Conclusion: Somatoform disored (s) represents an independent risk factor for sleep disorders.
