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العنوان
personality traits of patients with psychotropic drugs’ poisoning admitted to alexandria poison center/
المؤلف
Saad, Mohamed Salah Ibrahim.
هيئة الاعداد
باحث / محمد صلاح إبراهيم سعد
مشرف / آمال عبد الرزاق مشالي
مشرف / سهام فؤاد عبد العال
مشرف / صفاء مصطفى الشنوانى
الموضوع
Forensic Medicine. Clinical Toxicology.
تاريخ النشر
2018.
عدد الصفحات
P73. :
اللغة
الإنجليزية
الدرجة
ماجستير
التخصص
الطب
تاريخ الإجازة
29/3/2018
مكان الإجازة
جامعة الاسكندريه - كلية الطب - Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology
الفهرس
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Abstract

Acute poisoning is a real problem in developed as well as developing countries. Poisonings fall into three broad types: accidental, suicidal and homicidal. Patients with psychiatric disorders are at risk of toxicological emergencies. Psychotropic medications have numerous effects on the human body systems, and interact with other medications that can lead to further effects.
The Poisoning Severity Score is a standardized and generally applicable scheme for grading the severity of poisoning allowing a qualitative evaluation of morbidity and facilitates comparability of data.
Personality is often broken into statistically-identified factors called the Big Five, which are openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism (or emotional stability). These components are generally stable over time, and about half of the variance appears to be attributable to a person’s genetics rather than the effects of one’s environment.
The aim of this work was to study cases of acute poisoning of psychotropic drugs among patients admitted to Alexandria Poison Center at Alexandria Main University Hospital regarding to demographic data of cases with acute poisoning of psychotropic drugs, risk factors related to acute poisoning whether accidental or suicidal, as well as identifying the Poisoning Severity Score and personality traits of patients with psychotropic drug poisoning.
A hospital-based prospective observational descriptive approach was conducted to study all admitted patients with psychotropic drug poisoning admitted to Alexandria Poison Center at Alexandria Main University Hospital during period of six months starting from 1st August 2016 to 31th January 2017 (197 patients).
The number of studied cases was 197 patients, this comprise about 7.3 % of all poisoning cases admitted to Alexandria Poison Center during the same period. (2696 case).
The demographic data, the mean age of patients was 27.57 ± 10.14 years with 88.9 % of cases ≤ 40 years. 75.6 % of cases were females while 24.4 % were males. Regarding to poisoning circumstances, 80.2 % of cases were suicidal while 19.8 % were accidental. Suicidal cases were 46.7 % with their prescribed drugs and 33.5 % with non-prescribed drugs. Accidental cases were significantly concentrated in smaller age groups. Suicidal cases were significantly concentrated in age group of 21-30 years.
As regards to frequencies of different types of psychotropic drugs, sedative hypnotics’ drugs poisoning cases were 70.1 %. Most of psychotropic drugs poisoning were vitally stable. Typical antipsychotic drugs was the only ones to cause extrapyramidal manifestations. All studied antipsychotic cases developed constricted reactive pupil.
Regarding poisoning severity score, 60.9 % of all studied cases scored 0 (none), while 39.1 % scored 1 (minor). Typical antipsychotic cases re