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. 2021 Aug 20;21(1):413.
doi: 10.1186/s12888-021-03422-9.

Descriptive study of cases of schizophrenia in the Malian population

Souleymane Dit Papa Coulibaly #  1   2 , Baba Ba  3 , Pakuy Pierre Mounkoro  4   3 , Brehima Diakite #  4   3 , Yaya Kassogue #  4   3 , Mamoudou Maiga  4   5 , Aperou Eloi Dara  3 , Joseph Traoré  3 , Zoua Kamaté  3 , Kadiatou Traoré  3 , Mahamadou Koné  3 , Boubacar Maiga  3 , Zoumana Diarra  3 , Souleymane Coulibaly  4   3 , Arouna Togora  4   3 , Youssoufa Maiga  4   6 , Baba Koumaré  4   3
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Descriptive study of cases of schizophrenia in the Malian population

Souleymane Dit Papa Coulibaly et al. BMC Psychiatry. .

Abstract

Background: Schizophrenia is a relatively common disease worldwide with a point prevalence of around 5/1000 in the population. The aim of this present work was to assess the demographic, clinical, familial, and environmental factors associated with schizophrenia in Mali.

Methods: This was a prospective descriptive study on a series of 164 patients aged at least 12 years who came for a follow-up consultation at the psychiatry department of the University Hospital Center (CHU) Point G in Mali between February 2019 and January 2020 for schizophrenia spectrum disorder as defined by DSM-5 diagnostic criteria.

Results: Our results revealed that the male sex was predominant (80.5%). The 25-34 age group was more represented with 44.5%. The place of birth for the majority of our patients was the urban area (52.4%), which also represented the place of the first year of life for the majority of our patients (56.1%). We noted that the unemployed and single people accounted for 56.1 and 61% respectively. More than half of our patients 58.5% reported having reached secondary school level. With the exception of education level, there was a statistically significant difference in the distribution of demographic parameters. Familial schizophrenia cases accounted for 51.7% versus 49.3% for non-familial cases. The different clinical forms were represented by the paranoid form, followed by the undifferentiated form, and the hebephrenic form with respectively 34, 28 and 17.1%. We noted that almost half (48.8%) of patients were born during the cold season. Cannabis use history was not observed in 68.7% of the patients. The proportions of patients with an out-of-school father or an out-of-school mother were 51.2 and 64.2%, respectively.

Conclusion: The onset of schizophrenia in the Malian population has been associated with socio-demographic, clinical, genetic and environmental characteristics.

Keywords: Clinical; Environment; Mali; Schizophrenia; Socio-demographic.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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Distribution of schizophrenia patients according to genetic characteristics
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