ĐẶC ĐIỂM LÂM SÀNG TRIỆU CHỨNG ĂN UỐNG Ở NGƯỜI BỆNH GIAI ĐOẠN TRẦM CẢM ĐIỀU TRỊ NỘI TRÚ TẠI VIỆN SỨC KHỎE TÂM THẦN

Abstract

Depression is a common mental disorder, causing the largest disease burden and losing costs and casualties. In particular, the expression of eating and drinking belongs to the group of biological symptoms common in depression, affecting other important symptoms such as psychomotor retardation, increased fatigue, and decreased body weight. In Vietnam, there have been studies on clinical features of depression; however, access to eating symptoms of depression is still not much. Therefore, we conducted a study on the topic: "Clinical characteristics of eating and drinking symptoms in patients with depressive episode inpatient treatment at the Institute of Mental Health". Objective: "Describe clinical characteristics eating symptoms in patients with depressive episode inpatient treatment at the Institute of Mental Health." Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study of 68 depressive episodes inpatient treatment at the Institute of Mental Health from August 2020 to May 2021. Results: Most of the patients were female, accounting for 64.7% of the total number of patients, the average age was 40.01 ± 15.79, where they lived more than in the countryside (55.9%), had a high school education. 38.2%. Regarding the characteristics of eating symptoms: the time of occurrence of the highest rate was at the same time as depression, accounting for 63.2%. Loss of appetite is most common 48.5%, loss of appetite is 25.0%, increased appetite is 11.8%. Regarding the characteristics of meals, eating at the wrong time (42.6%); 47.1% of patients ate 3 meals/day, 2 meals/day (35.4%), 1 meal/day (4.4%). Patients who ate less accounted for more than patients who ate more (82.4% and 13.2%). Up to 64.7% of patients have an unhealthy eating style, in which the highest percentage of patients with emotional eating is 50.0%. Conclusion: Eating symptoms are widespread in the depressive episode. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to this group of symptoms for early detection and treatment to improve the disease status and improve the patient's quality of life.