Socio-demographic Factors Among Delusional Disorder: a Case Series Register

Abstract

Introduction

Delusional disorder has reached an entity of growing interest with a prevalence in developed countries between 1 and 4% of the psychiatric consultations.

Objective

To describe various socio-demographic and clinical variables that characterize patients diagnosed with delusional disorder in Andalucía according to DSM-5 criteria.

Methods

Reviewing common medical history digital records. First, it has been proved whether it complies DSM-5 criteria for the diagnosis of delusional disorder. Then, there have been different epidemiological variables collected: age, sex, family psychiatric history, and marital status, and employment status, age of onset of illness, number of years of follow-up by specialized care, the number of visits to your computer, and number of hospitalizations in a psychiatric inpatient unit among others.

of the 1927 patients studied, 1452 met the criteria for diagnosis of delusional disorder. These patients live in Andalusia and come to different mental health care units, with an average follow-up period of 9 years and 1 month.

Results

About half of the sample were women and half men (49% versus 51%).

Forty-seven percent of the sample are married or have a couple, and 19% are in active employment.

Thirty-two percent have a family history of psychiatric mental disorder written in his digital clinical record.

Seventy-five percent of the sample meets criteria F22, while 25% are diagnosed as other psychoses.

Conclusion

This is the largest record of cases registered with delusional disorder to date, in which we describe the biopsychosocial characteristics of this group of patients in the largest Spanish region.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.