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Abstract
It’s the field which seeks to measure the prevalence of mental illness in society. It is a subfield of the more general epidemiology. (Susser et al, 2006)
This work targeted to make use of epidemiological studies on psychiatric disorders in Egypt in order to identify the gaps in Egyptian researches to overcome these defects in the future. So that work aimed at:
Systematically reviewing & appraising the available Egyptian epidemiological studies on psychiatric disorders.
In this study several databases were explored in the period from December 2008 to February 2009 to collect epidemiological studies on psychiatric disorders in Egypt. The databases searched were those of libraries of faculty of medicine Ain Shams University, faculty of medicine Al-Azhar University, faculty of medicine Cairo University, as well as Egyptian Journal of Psychiatry, Current Psychiatry and other available Journals. All the databases were searched till the time of data collection.
Of a total of 59 studies collected the majorities were the epidemiological studies concerning psychiatric disorder in child and adolescent (18 studies), substance use disorder (10 studies), studies addressing women mental health (9 studies), and those addressing neurotic disorder (6 studies), geriatric psychiatry (5 studies), and mood disorder (3 studies).
Also there were additional conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention such as suicide (4 studies) and liaison psychiatry (3 studies) and lastly a study on psychiatric disorder in a sample of students of faculty of medicine Al Azhar University.
On appraising the selected studies, we try to criticize each study in objective points as the title, aim of the work, the sampling methods and the assessment tools used in those studies. Also the results and discussion were criticized. Lastly the recommendation and limitation of studies were stated or not.
Summary of M.Sc and M.D thesis of Ain Shams University will be presented in appendix.
Conclusion: although the great effort spent in the Egyptian research it was noticed that it lacks coordination to offer complimentary data about the profiles of different psychiatric disorders. Further effort is needed to collect the available research to construct a national data base that will help in planning for the future research according to the needs of the community.