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Relationship between methamphetamine use and outbreak of schizophrenic circuit disease
Jonáš, Michal ; Minařík, Jakub (advisor) ; Musílková, Eva (referee)
The issue of dual diagnoses has resonated across many fields for several decades. It has also been proved that the number of methamphetamine users grows dramatically, so does the number of patients hospitalized for "toxic psychosis" or other psychotic disorders. Schizophrenia and related diseases then form the third largest group of psychiatric patients in the Czech Republic. The aim of the research part was to analyze data of patients sample from Havlíčkův Brod Psychiatric Hospital (PNHB), with concurrent diagnoses F20-F25 and F15.x or F19.x and to describe associations between methamphetamine use and outbreak of schizophrenic mental illness. The research sample was obtained by combining method of selection according to criteria, method of intentional selection through institutions and method of total selection. Havlíčkův Brod Psychiatric Hospital provided anonymized data of 108 patients meeting the required criteria. The data were categorized within the content analysis of the medical documentation text, coded in a simple form and recorded in Excel spreadsheet. In the last phase, the data were analyzed by combining the first, the second and the third degree in contingency tables. The number of hospitalized men was more than double compered with women in the observed period. The average age using...

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