A Comparative Study On Stressor In Children And Adolescent Patients With Dissociative Disorder And Their Age And Gender Matched Controls In Western Rajasthan

Abstract

Introduction:-The dissociative disorders (DDs) are a disturbance in the organization of identity, memory, perception, or consciousness involving both restricted access of information to consciousness and disruptions of consciousness.
Methodology:- This study is a hospital based cross-sectional case-control study. The subjects were selected by consecutive sampling with proper inclusion and exclusion criteria fulfilled. Socio-demographic profile of cases and controls was compared using the Chi-square test. For normally distributed quantitative continuous variables were compared using an independent T-test.
Result:-In this study, mean age of onset of dissociative disorder was late adolesesent, female were more affected then male. The cases were more of lower socio-economic status with nuclear family. In cases71% had identifiable stressor while in control only 15% ,major stressor was mainly study related.
Conclusion:- Adolescent (late age),Female sex, Nuclear family (poor support system), lower socio-economic status had high prevalence while Children (young age), Male sex, Joint Family (good support system), and Upper socio-economic status had less prevalence of dissociative disorder. Major stressors were study and familial issues.