title: Psychiatric disorders in non - ulcer dyspepsia.
abstract: Systematic studies of psychiatric disorders in non -ulcer dyspepsia are rare. The aim of the present study was to find out the nature and prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in non-ulcer dyspepsia. Thirty three patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia and thirty with duodenal ulcer were assessed for psychiatric morbidity with the help of the regular version of the SADS, and diagnosed according to DSM-IIIR criteria. Non-ulcer dyspepsia was defined precisely and investigators who made the psychiatric diagnosis were blind to the gastroenterological diagnosis. In the non-ulcer dyspepsia group, 69.7% of patients had psychiatric morbidity, compared to 26.7% in the ulcer group. The difference between the two groups in the frequency of psychiatric morbidity was statistically significant. Dysthymic disorder (39.4%) was the most frequent psychiatric disorder in the non-ulcer dyspepsia group.
authors.affiliation: P. John Alexander, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal - 576 119, Karnataka.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Alexander
authors.forename: B V
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Tantry
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Raju