CLINICAL FEATURES OF ANXIETY DISORDERS IN PATIENTS TREATED IN A PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL

Abstract

The aim of the study: to study the clinical features of anxiety disorders in patients living in the TransBaikal Territory who received inpatient treatment in 2023–2024.
Materials and methods. The study was conducted on the basis of the Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital named after V.H. Kandinsky. The inpatient charts of patients who were treated in the psychotherapy department in 2023–2024 were analyzed using a continuous method. 66 case histories of patients undergoing inpatient treatment for anxiety disorders were selected as the material for the study. Information was obtained from the hospital patient's charts by copying the data into a pre-prepared questionnaire.
The results of the study. Among the patients, 43,9% (29 people) lived in Chita, and the remaining 56,1% (37 people) were residents of 19 districts of the Trans-Baikal Territory. The majority of patients (80,3%) were women, while men accounted for 19,7%. More than half of the patients (51,5%) had secondary or specialized secondary education. 39 patients (59,1%), before being admitted to a psychiatric hospital, contacted therapists and neurologists about somatovegetative manifestations of anxiety disorders. The distribution of patients according to the severity of anxiety was as follows: the largest group consisted of people with moderate anxiety, and the smallest – with its mild manifestations. It was revealed that the severity of anxiety disorders did not depend on gender, level of education, social status. It was found that patients who were admitted to a psychiatric hospital for the first time had more anxiety than patients with repeated hospitalizations.
Conclusion. The results obtained indicate the need to improve the timely diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders in order to prevent their chronic course and the formation of comorbid psychiatric and somatic pathology.