Volume 27, Issue 1
DOI: 10.53555/03276716.2018.1050
Dysfunctional Analysis and Suicidal Ideation in Psychiatric Patients
Abstract
Background: Dysfunction is a psychological concept which indicates individual’s malfunctioning. It is concerned with malfunctioning of the individual at the movement, in comparison to his previous functioning or potentiality. Suicidal ideation are thoughts about killing oneself; these thoughts may include a plan. The most commonly used medical term for thoughsts of suicide is suicidal ideation, which can range from vague ideas to a fully developed plan without necessarily leading to any suicidal action. Present study attempts to explore the dysfunctional analysis and suicidal ideation in patients of schizophrenia and affective disorder.
Materials and Methods: Institution-based study was conducted in 2012. Patients with schizophrenia and affective disorder were selected using purposive sampling technique. The sample consisted of two groups of patients e.g. schizophrenia (N= 60) and affective disorder (N= 60) diagnosed by psychiatrist in mental hospital, Bareilly. Total sample consisted one hundred and twenty patients (male and female).
Detailed case history was taken and Dysfunctional analysis Questionnaire, Prasad (1971) and Suicidal Risk Eleven Scale (Verma et al., 1998) was used for this purpose.
Descriptive statistics as well as t- test was calculated to verify the objective of the study.
Results: The findings reveal significant difference on all areas of dysfunctional analysis i.e. social, vocational, personal, family and cognitive between patients of schizophrenia and affective disorder. On suicidal ideation measure no significant difference was reported between the group of schizophrenic and affective disorder patients, male and female patients of schizophrenia and male and female patients of affective disorder.
Keywords
Dysfunctional Analysis, Suicidal Ideation, Schizophrenia, Affective disorders