AU - Sadeghi, Majid AU - Aliverdi, Parviz TI - Delusional disorders among psychiatric patients in Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - ijpcp JN - ijpcp VO - 7 VI - 3 IP - 3 4099 - http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1628-en.html 4100 - http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1628-en.pdf SO - ijpcp 3 AB  -     Objectives: delusional disorder is not a common psychotic disorder, often characterized by single and systematic delusion. The present study was designed to examine delusional disorder in terms of epidemiology, symptomatology and, phenomenology. Method: the subjects were 51 patients (34 male, 17 female, 45 hospitalized, and 6 out patients), who were diagnosed as suffering from delusional disorder on the basis of DSM-IV diagnostic criteria. They were studied for a period of two years at Rooxbeh hospital. The data was collected through a 49 item questionnaire, a Wechsler IQ test, and CT scans. Findings: the most prevalent delusions were found to be persecutory and jealously delusions (49.2% and 40.7% respectively). The average age for the onset of the disorder was about forty one. 20% of the patients were from low socio-economic conditions. In 45% of the cases, severe mental stress was noticed in the background. Traces of mental disorder in the family history, organic disease, and substance abuse were estimated to be 30 %. Results: the pattern of delusional disorder in this study seems not to be much different from that of similar studies. . CP - IRAN IN - Tehran, Iran, I.R. LG - eng PB - ijpcp PG - 4 PT - Original Research YR - 2002