Prevalence, phenomenology and etiology of delirium in medically ill patients

2016-02-27T04-42-06Z
Source: International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
Susan Solomon, Pradeep Thilakan, Jesudas Jayakar.
Background: Delirium is one of the most common causes of referral of medically ill patients for psychiatric management and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The aim of the study was to determine the prevalence and etiology of delirium among medically ill patients and to describe its phenomenology. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in the general medical ward of a tertiary care hospital. Four hundred patients were screened for delirium using the confusion assessment method. The delirium rating scale revised-98 was used to further characterize the severity and phenomenology of delirium. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies, means and standard deviation were used. Chi square test was applied to compare categorical variables and Fishers exact test was used to test associations. Student t test was used to compare the means of independent groups. Results: The prevalence of delirium was 9.75%. Male gender (69.23%) and age above 60 years (66.67%) were significantly associated with delirium (p values of 0.04 and


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