A Community Based Study of Depression and Its Risk Factors among Geriatric Population Inperiurban Areas of Tamilnadu
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 8
Abstract
Background: Geriatric depression is an important public health prob-lem. There is a dearth of community studies from India investigating ger-iatric depression and its associated risk factors. This study aimed to es-tablish the prevalence and factors associated with geriatric depression in asemiurbanpopulation of Melmaruvathur. Methods: This was a community based cross sectional study con-ducted in semiurban areas of Melmaruvathur. 200 individuals in the geriatric age group were ran-domly selectedand were inter-viewedusing standard Geriatric de-pression scale and the result wasanalyzed using the statistical software SPSS 20. Results: Prevalence of geriatric de-pression was 65% with 14.5% mild and 50.5% with severe depression. Depression was significantly asso-ciated with elders in the age group of 60-69 years. The proportion of se-vere depression was significantly higher among those participants whose spouse had expired (85.56% vs 14.44%). The proportion of de-pression was significantly higher among the elders who gave a previ-ous history (92.13%) of depression. The proportion of elders who re-quire home care was also signifi-cantly associated with depression. Conclusions: Geriatric depression is highly prevalent in thesemiurbana-reas of Melmaruvathur. Age, status of spouse, previous history of de-pression, elders whorequires home care was the significant factors that was associated with depression in geriatric population.
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Devi Kittu, Logesh Wari
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