DOI: 10.36347/sjmcr.2020.v08i02.011

Pages: 136-146

Women get hospitalized for various serious mental disorders that are gender specific, half of them married with children, the other half single\divorced women stigmatized and marginalized in our society. The aim of this study is to describe mentally ill women admitted into the psychiatric hospital, socio demographically and clinically, highlighting differences, specificities and multiple roles distress deviate with the course of disorder. It’s a cross-sectional prospective study about 70 patients admitted at the psychiatry hospital Ibn Nafis on Mohammed VI university hospital Center in Marrakesh-Morocco, and reports the following results: The average age is 37,4 years, 44% of them are single, with a low educational level (primary school) 32,8%. 64% of our women are from the urban region, 51,4% are jobless and 59% brought to the hospital by their families. 11,6% of patients in our study have positive family history, 70% of them suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. 55% of patients are admitted for schizophrenia, followed by bipolar I disorder 18%, Major depressive disorder affected 8% of our patients. 20% deal with a toxic habits, 14,5% abuse nicotine (74% low dependence FTND) and one woman have tried quitting. The criminal was 5,7% including different psychiatric disorders involved, assault is the most common charge. Suicide attempts are closely linked to major depressive episodes of MDD and BID, in patients were already under a combination of antidepressants and anxiolytics for at least 3 months. Psychotic features are observed in most of admitted disorders, 83% in BIP and 67% in MDD. According to HAMILTON-DEPRESSION 66.3% of women are admitted for a severe depressive episode, 50% present anxiety comorbidity and a history of CBT sessions months prior hospitalization. Shading the light into admitted women in psychiatry and deciphering specific demographic, clinical and therapeutic features may improve the global care system and women's adherence to treatment and fol