Author(s)

Zahra Dakir¹, Ahmed Ahami¹, Sanae Sadek², Samira Mouden¹, Asmae Belala², Fatima Benel Harkati², Khalid Bouchikh³

¹Equip of Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience and Health, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco.
²Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ibn Tofa Ïl University, Kenitra, Morocco.
³Moulay El Hassan Health Center, Psychiatry Department, Kenitra, Morocco.

The use of psychotropic drugs is important in Morocco related to the large amount of sufferers by psychiatric disorders, according to a survey of the Moroccan Ministry of Health (2010). A prevalence of 26.5% of depressive disorders, and 9% for generalized anxiety disorder, and 5.6% of psychotic disorders was recorded within population, hence the importance to describe the use and assess the prevalence of psychotropic and socio-economic factors was associated with their use. Our research is a retrospective study, carried out between February 2010-December 2013, holding a sample of 5618 patients aged between 1 and 90 years old. The study is concerned with drawing social and clinical data from patients’ records. The different classes of psychotropic drugs prescribed to patients in the psychiatric department Moulay El Hassan Hospital, vary between antidepressants (36%), antipsychotics (32%), anxiolytics (10%), anti-epileptics (9%), the class of diverse “sulpiride” (7%), anti-parkinsonian (6%), and hypnotics were prescribed in rare cases. The relationship between socio-economic factors and the take of a psychotropic treatment was very strong in Morocco. In contrast, the patients support showed by close families and the health care staff remain a challenge for Moroccan population.

Psychotic Disorders, Psychotropic, Socio-Economic Factors, Morocco

Dakir, Z. , Ahami, A. , Sadek, S. , Mouden, S. , Belala, A. , Benel Harkati, F. and Bouchikh, K. (2017) Epidemiological Approach to the Use of Psychotropic Medications at Moulay El Hassan Hospital, in the Gharb Region of Morocco. Neuroscience and Medicine, 8, 9-23. doi: 10.4236/nm.2017.82002.