@article{Zain_Hussain_Shaheen_Qadir_Junejo_2014, title={BIRTH ORDER AND PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY}, volume={6}, url={https://www.kmuj.kmu.edu.pk/article/view/13401}, abstractNote={<p><strong>OBJECTIVES</strong>:<br />1. To determine the frequency of sociodemographic factors (birth order)<br />among subjects attending a psychiatric clinic.<br />2. To establish psychiatric diagnosis of subjects.<br />3. To bring out dominating frequencies of birth orders of the patient in<br />relation with related diagnosis.</p><p><br /><strong>METHODOLOGY</strong>:</p><p>This cross sectional study was conducted at outpatient  clinic of Liquate University Hospital Hyderabad during 1st January 2012 to 31st January 2012. One hundred consecutive subjects attending a psychiatric OPD with psychiatric symptoms, were assessed for the total siblings, birth order among siblings and their psychiatric diagnosis. The socio-demographic data was recorded through a designed semi-structured proforma, and diagnosis was established by Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV Text Revised Criteria (DSM-IV TR).</p><p><br /><strong>RESULTS</strong>:</p><p>The age range remained 9-60 years and numbers of siblings<br />were in the range of 1-12 siblings and fourth birth order was found to<br />be dominant in this study to have psychiatric morbidity (38%). While,<br />frequency of first order birth was 18%. Generalized anxiety disorder<br />and depressive (GAD) disorders were dominant diagnosis (55%), while<br />GAD was more in the male gender.<br /><strong>CONCLUSION</strong>:</p><p>This study shows that psychiatric morbidity was more<br />common in the lower birth order. This study may be carried out at<br />different centers of psychiatry for the better assessment of psychiatric<br />morbidity.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Keywords</strong>: Gender, Birth order, Diagnostic, Psychiatry & Hyderabad.</p>}, number={4}, journal={KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL}, author={Zain, Fahad ul and Hussain, S Jamil and Shaheen, Fareeda and Qadir, Altaf and Junejo, Jamil}, year={2014}, month={Dec.}, pages={167–171} }