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Revista Científica Ciencia Médica
versión impresa ISSN 2077-3323versión On-line ISSN 2220-2234
Resumen
BARRIENTOS GUEVARA, Samuel Andrés y LOPEZ PAREDES, Octavio Eduardo. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONALITY DISORDERS AND DRUG ABUSE IN THE HOSPITAL “SANTA ROSITA” PATIENTS. Rev Cient Cienc Méd [online]. 2021, vol.24, n.1, pp.13-19. Epub 01-Jul-2021. ISSN 2077-3323. https://doi.org/10.51581/rccm.v23i2.339.
Introduction:
Personality disorders correspond to a specific axis in the multiaxial mental diagnosis of a person, they represent distorted patterns in thinking and behavior, these disorders have a wide comorbidity with other mental disorders and diseases. Drugs are agents that modify the function of the organs which they interact with, the brain is one of them.
Objectives:
Establish the relationship between personality disorders and drug abuse on the intern patients in acute rooms of the Santa Rosita Psychiatric Hospital, Honduras.
Materials and Methods:
Descriptive, retrospective study, realised after having a random selection of the medical expedients of patients that entered because of drug abuse, with a significant sample from the patients medical records that had been also diagnosed with personality disorders by the Psychiatry service following the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) criteria while being in the hospital wards, this process followed by an application of a specific instrument to recollect detailed information and analysis using Epi Info 7 statistics program, looking to respond to the frequency of PD that coexists in patients with drug abuse.
Results:
The patients attended by cause of an determined licit or ilicit drug abuse presented personality disorders in 41% of the population, in the case of abuse of more than one drug when admitted to the hospital it ascended to 49% following de International Classification of Diseases.
Conclusions:
The most frequent personality disorders associated to the abuse of one drug, in descending order were: asocial borderline and mixed personality disorders. Nevertheless in case of several drug abuse at the time of their medical admission were Histrionic, Schizoid, Paranoid and other specific personality disorders.
Palabras clave : Drug Abuse; Personality Disorders; Psychiatry.