Admission to the Psychiatric Emergency Services of Patients with Alcohol-Related Mental Disorder

Abstract

The assessment of the presentation of patients with psychiatric disorders related to alcohol consumption in the Clinic and PII departments of Psychiatry and Neurology Hospital Brasov. All the patients with psychiatric disorders hospitalized between 2007 and 2009 related to alcohol consumption were analyzed in terms of socio-demographic variables: gender, age, residence, marital status, employment status, and educational status. Of 7146 patients hospitalized in the study period, 811 (11.35%) were admitted for psychiatric disorders related to alcohol consumption. In 2007 there were 2612 patients hospitalized in acute departments from which we had a rate of 7.61% hospitalized with alcohol-related mental disorders. In 2008 and 2009 we can see a yearly increase in the percentage of patients with alcohol-related mental disorders with a percentage of 11.14% for 2008 and 15.59% for 2009. The number of patients with severe symptoms related to alcohol abuse was triple in 2009 compared with 2007. The number of admissions for alcohol-related symptoms increases from one year to another by approximately 5% per year while maintaining the gender ratio. Most alcohol-related disorders were found after 40 years for both men and women. It was observed a decreasing number of admissions of persons employed from 2007 to 2009.