CHARACTERISTICS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE AND TRANSIENT PSYCHOSIS

Đoàn Thị Huệ1,, Dương Minh Tâm1,2
1 National Mental Health Institute, Bach Mai Hospital
2 Hanoi Medical University

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Objective: To describe the characteristics of psychological trauma in patients with acute and transient psychosis. Subjects and methods: Using a cross-sectional study, to analyze psychological trauma characteristics by directly interviewing patients and their family members who were treated as inpatients at the  National Institute of Mental Health - Bach Mai Hospital. Results: 57 patients had psychological trauma out of 81 patients with acute and transient psychosis, accounting for 70.4%. Analysis of 57 patients with psychological trauma, we found: economic difficulties are the most common psychological trauma, accounting for 29.6%, there is no patient whose retirement is psychological trauma. Mainly psychological trauma occurred more than 2 weeks before the illness, accounting for 54.3%. Most psychological trauma was of moderate intensity and significance (50.6% and 58.0%). Conclusions: Acute and transient psychotic disorders have a high rate of psychological trauma, most of which are economic hardships, and the intensity and significance of the trauma are mostly moderate.

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