Abstract:

The study examines the sociodemographic characteristics and diagnoses of the patients admitted to the psychiatric outpatient clinic at a public hospital. It is a retrospective study, and 18,630 patient records were evaluated in one year between January and December 2017.  67.6% (n=12608) of the patients are female, and 32.3% (n=6022) are male. The average age is 42.02 ± 17.30. According to the diagnoses based on the diagnostic codes of International Classification of Diseases (ICD), it was found that the diagnostic ratio of anxiety disorders was 53.75% (n=10013), mood disorders were 37.56% (n=6998), somatoform disorders were 0.91% (n=169), psychotic disorders were 4.53% (n=161), dementia were 0.89%, mental retardation was 0.38% (n=70), and other conditions consisted of 1.99% (n=371). The most common psychiatric disorder was determined to be the anxiety disorder, and it was found to be higher with the young group (19-30). Changing living conditions are considered to have an effect on this result.

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