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OBJECTIVE The study was designed to see the frequency of co morbid anxiety, depression and mixed anxiety and depressive disorder among patients having dissociative disorder. The second objective is to see the relationship of gender, education, marital status, availability of social support, family system, and socioeconomic status with dissociative disorder patients co morbid with psychiatric disorders. STUDY DESIGN Cross sectional study design. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The study was conducted in the inpatient department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences DHQ Hospital, Faisalabad from June 2010 to May 2011. SUBJECTS AND METHODS One hundred patients with dissociative disorder participated in this study through purposive convenient sampling technique. Diagnostic and research criteria of ICD-10 was employed to diagnose dissociative disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, depression (Mild. Moderate, Severe) and mixed anxiety and depressive disorder. SPSS 17 was used to analyze the data. RESULTS Out of 100 dissociative patients 51 (51 %} had a psychiatric co morbidity. 16 (31.37 %) had Generalized Anxiety, 19 (37.25 %) had mild depression. 10 (19.61 %) had moderate depression and 06 (11.76 %) had mixed anxiety and depressive disorder. Most of the patients were females (93 %), single (67 %), with low education (most of patients were educated till 8th grade i-e- 35 %), having no family history of mental illness {72%) and no past psychiatric history (79%). 85 %of the sample had social support available to them. CONCLUSION: There is high psychiatric co morbidity among dissociative disorder patients. The prevalence is high among young, females, single, low educated people. Every dissociative patient must be screened for depression and anxiety. It needs to be communicated to mental health professionals and general practitioners/medical specialists should be sensitized about early diagnosis, management and referral. It will help decrease the stigma and burden of the disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

OBJECTIVE To assess quality of sleep and associated health issues in psychiatric patients. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional design. PLACE AND DURATION OF THE STUDY The study was conducted in the department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, D.H.Q Hospital, Faisalabad, Pakistan over the period of six months. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Through purposive consecutive sampling, 108 psychiatric patients participated in the study. Data were collected on Demographic variable Performa and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. RESULTS Results demonstrated that more than half of the sample was females and married. One sample t-test confirmed thai majority of sample had poor quality of sleep (M = 11.57, SD = 4.14), t (107) = 13.89, p - 0.00. Further Analysis of Variance showed that psychiatric patients with lung disease and obesity had poor quality of sleep, similarly negative correlation was found between pain andquality of sleep. CONCLUSION Research findings concluded that most of the psychiatric patients were females suffering from different types of physical health issues and had poor quality of sleep. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]