Introduction: This research was carried out as a descriptive study to examine psychiatric symptoms and some affecting factors in hospitalized patients.
Methods: This descriptive study was conducted with 260 patients who were hospitalized in the internal medicine, general surgery, and orthopedics services of a training and research hospital between June 2017 and January 2018 and who agreed to participate in the study. “Personal Information Form,” “General Health Questionnaire-12 (GHQ-12),” and “Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R)” were used as data collection tools.
Results: When the 260 patients included in the study were evaluated according to the GHQ, 48.8% were found to be at risk for mental health disorders. According to the Symptom Screening Test, 16.9% were found to be at risk for somatization, 10% for obsessive–compulsive disorder, 13.8% for interpersonal sensitivity, 20% for depression, 8.1% for anxiety, 10.4% for anger-enmity, 5% for phobic anxiety, 11.1% for paranoid thought, 12.2% for psychoticism, and 19.2% for additional disorders (sleep disorders, eating disorders, and guilt).
Discussion and Conclusion: As a result of the study, psychiatric symptom scores of individuals who were hospitalized due to physical illness were found to be high. It is recommended that individuals who are hospitalized due to physical illness should be followed up for psychiatric symptoms throughout their stay and that individuals with chronic illnesses should be evaluated comprehensively in terms of psychiatric disorders.
Keywords: Chronic disease; Consultation-liaison psychiatry (CLP); Psychiatric nursing; Psychiatric symptom
, Elçin Babaoğlu2 
