Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its correlation with sexual dysfunction in adult psychiatric patients treated with psychotropics in a tertiary care hospital

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) states that one in four people or 25% of the population will experience a mental health issue at some point in their lives of which depression and anxiety are the most common issues regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, genetics or their family history. 1 Childhood maltreatment is one of the prominent risk factors that has been found to be associated with the development of mental illness such as depression in the future. Apart from the treatment-related effects on such patients, non-suicidal