Lists of Demographic Details and Psychiatric Diagnoses of Patients Diagnosed with FMS in Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Outpatient Clinics

Abstract

Objective

In this study, a list of demographic details and a list of psychiatric diagnoses of patients who presented to physical therapy and rehabilitation outpatients clinics of Erenköy state hospital for physical medicine and rehabilitation and were diagnosed with fibromyalgia were investigated.

Method

The study sample included patients who presented to outpatient clinics of the department of physical therapy and rehabilitation and the department of psychiatry in the hospital in 2015 and patients who were diagnosed with fibromyalgia (FMS) in the outpatient clinic of department of physical therapy and rehabilitation and also presented to the outpatients’ clinics of psychiatry department. SCID-Mood Module and HAM-D were used during psychiatric assessment of the patients.

Conclusion

It was determined that a total of 5225 patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia were examined in physical therapy and rehabilitation outpatient clinics in 2015. Of these, 183 patients also presented to the psychiatric outpatients clinic and were diagnosed with a psychiatric diagnoses. In this study, a list of demographic details and a list of psychiatric diagnoses of these 183 patients were made. The results were compared with the literature.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.