[Patients with Mental Illness are at Greater Risk for Obesity]

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ABSTRACT

It is believed that the children who are going through any psychiatric illness are more vulnerable to obesity in comparison to those who are psychiatrically normal. The main reason behind this vulnerability is the increasing use of the medicines related to the cure of psychotropic diseases and secondly the generation antipsychotics are very good at treating the psychiatric illness but they are linked and associated with the obesity and weight gain. Information, data and statistics are lacking for the management of obesity in the current population taken into account.

Methods for Information and data collection: Articles, journals and secondary literature published on the topics like mental illness, obesity, management of obesity were taken into account and were analyzed in depth.

Keywords: The keywords used for the research are as follows; adolescents, psychiatric illness, children, therapy, weight gain, antipsychotic and treatment.

Results: The pharmacological interventions for pediatric obesity that were identified in the research are educational, behavioral, family based and nutritional. While the interventions that are non pharmacological diffident to restrained success in the control over weight and losing it. For the management of obesity the most promising thing are the agents of pharmacy alone or they could be used with the diet plans and exercises.

Conclusion: As there is unavailability of the studies that are conducted in the context children who are psychiatrically ill and the risk of obesity associated with them, so the general studies conducted in the reference of childhood obesity can be applied to the trials of the population. Safety and efficacy in the long term is not available yet for these interference and interventions. The constraints that are associated with the methodology of the studies considered include longitudinal trials, placebo controlled, small sample sizes and absence of the probability of accidents and loop holes, which highlights the requirement for the further studies and trials to be done to address the same issues. Management and monitoring at the clinical level of medication that leads to the obesity is still a very significant concern for the health of public.

Keywords: psychiatric illness, children, adolescents, therapy, weight gain, antipsychotic and treatment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACTII

INTRODUCTION1

METHODS4

Research Design4

Literature Search5

RESULTS6

Clinical Administration7

CONCLUSION23

REFERENCES27

APPENDICES45

INTRODUCTION

Approximately 15.5% to 33% of adolescents and children in United States are suffering from obesity or are overweight. In the past 30 years, the obesity rate has almost doubled and the children specially who are in the age bracket of 2-5 and adolescents who falls in the age bracket of 12-19 are the major part of this effect and also the children falling in the age bracket of 6-11 are even more vulnerable to obesity as the statistics show that the rate of obesity for these children has increased to the triple of what it actually was. Recently it has been brought to the knowledge that in United States almost 9 million children who are over the age of 6 years believed to be obese. Obesity in childhood might lead to the lifelong health diseases or consequences and it can ...