STUDY ON DISTRIBUTION FEATURES OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS IN THE PSYCHIATRIC WARD OF A GENERAL HOSPITAL AND CORRESPONDING NURSING MEASURES

[Objective] To study the gender and age distributions of affective disorders in the psychiatry ward in a general hospital and analyze the corresponding nursing measures.[Methods] In total,1020 in-patients dignosed as affective disorders according to the Chinese Classification and Diagnostic Criteria of Mental Disease(3rd version)(CCMD-3),who were in psychological ward of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University from 2002 to 2007,were divided into three groups as following:the group of unipolar depression(UD),the group of bipolar depression(BD) and the group of other types of bipolar disorders(BP).Distributions of gender and age and the age of onset were statistically analyzed among these groups.[Results] Affective disorders accounted for 23.7% of all the patients in hospital from 2002 to 2007.The average ratio of female patients of UD group(1.77±0.24) was significantly higher than that of both BD group(1.05±0.23) and BP group(0.77± 0.51)(P﹤0.001).For both the female(41±14) and the male(39±15) in UD group,The average ages of onset were older than those of BD group(31±11,31±11 respectively) or BP group(28±12,29±12 respectively)(P﹤0.001).For Gender distribution,there were significant differences among seven age groups in UD group(the groups aged ≤18ys,19ys-25ys,26ys-35ys,36ys-45ys,46ys-55ys,56ys-65ys,and ≥66ys,P = 0.002) and the group with the largest proportion(23.2%) in the female was the group aged 46ys-55ys.[Conclusion] In the psychiatry ward of a general hospital,affective disorder is a common type of mental disorders and female patients is 1.77 times as many as male.Perimenopause is the high-incidence stage of unipolar depression in women.The optimal nursing measures should be set up on the basis of these findings.