[Clinical aspects of adult schizophrenia in the psychiatric service at the Yalgado Ouedraogo National Hospital Center of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)]

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disease severe and disabling, which affects young adults. It is a frequent disease which, due to its disabling nature concerns as well the society, the family as the individual. We have gone throughout the files of 61 inpatients in the psychiatric department of the National Hospital Centre Yalgado Ouedraogo of Ouagadougou, using the diagnosis of schizophrenia according the criteria of the World Health Organization. The aim of our study was to draw up the socio-demographic profiles and the symptoms of these schizophrenic patients. Our results emphasize the importance of delirious productions (80.3%) and disorders of the perceptive field, particularly auditive hallucinations (51.5%) in the semiology of the disease. On the diagnostic plan, paranoid forms prevailed (74.5%) in our series. The long course of the schizophrenia process preceding the consultation often makes the diagnosis easy at the patient's arrival. Clinical forms with noisy symptomatology, usually not much tolerated by families, often ask for medical care, sometimes after unsuccessful traditional therapy.