To estimate prevalence of psychiatric co-morbidity and its effect on quality of life in persons with Hansen's disease. METHOD: The study was conducted on around 80 persons above 18 year age with Hansen's disease in outpatient department dermatology and in leprosy home. Participants were diagnosed cases of Hansen's disease, selected randomly and were evaluated with socio demographic questionnaire, Duke's general health questionnaire, DSM-5 self rated level 1 cross cutting symptom measure-adult and WHO-QOL-BREF. The period of data collection was from October 2014 to March 2015. RESULTS: The assessment showed that prevalence of at least one psychiatric co morbidity was 83.75% (67/80 patients) and of these 67 patients 18(26.86%) have one diagnosis, 26(38.80%) have two diagnoses and 23(34.32%) have 3 or more psychiatric diagnoses. Among all depression was most prevalent (28.35%) mental disorder; followed by anxiety disorder (23.88%). Quality of life was significantly impaired in almost all persons with Hansen's disease. CONCLUSION: Persons with Hansen's disease have significantly high prevalence of mental disorders which have much impact on their quality of life which were under diagnosed and thus remained untreated.

Aim: To study the socio-demographic profile of mentally handicapped children and to compare the Psychiatric morbidity in parents of mentally handicapped children with that of parents of non handicapped children. Materials and Methods: The sample under study consisted of 50 children of both sexes 30 of these were mentally handicapped children & 20 children were non handicapped. IQ was assessed using Coloured Progressive matrices and Goddard form board. SCID I was used to assess Psychopathology of parents. Results:The prevalence of consanguinity, pregnancy complications, co-morbidity (speech and seizure disorder) and psychopathology in mothers was high in mentally handicapped children as compared to non handicapped children.