Characteristic description of patients with bipolar affective disorder which hospitalized in psychiatric hospital of West Java Province
Muhammad Adam Zulqarnain, Lukas Kabul Budianto, Chatidjah Satrijo Wibowo

Medical Faculty, Universitas Jenderal Achmad Yani

Abstract

Bipolar disorder was a severe mental disorder which had a quite high prevalence around 1-2%. Most patients had a chronic symptom of bipolar disorder. The chronicty of symptom caused comorbidities that could eventually caused malfunction and death. This study aimed to described the characteristics description of patients with bipolar affective disorder which hospitalized in psychiatric hospital of West Java Province. The research method was descriptive with sample of 375 data from 499 medical record. Data were collected through medical record section in psychiatric hospital of West Java Province and the results were presented in the form of a frequency distribution table. From the result of this study found that the count of bipolar affective disorder patients which hospitalized in psychiatric hospital of West Java Province were mostly in the age of 20-29 years as much as 117 people (31,2%), with male gender as much as 212 people (56,5%), and did not have a family history of mental disorder as much as 261 people (69,6%), marital status more in patients who were single as much as 170 people (45,3%), for the homeland were more from rural people as much as 268 people (71,5%), while the most job were in patients who unemployed as much as 272 people (72,5%), and in level of education most cases were at high school as much as 128 people (34,1%).

Keywords: Affective disorder, bipolar disorder, characteristics

Topic: Epidemology