GEROPSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN RURAL UTTAR PRADESH

In a specific geographical area an estimate of prevalence of psychiatric morbidility was done. The sample was divided into geriatric population-psychiatrically ill and non-ill, and non-geriatric psychiatrically ill-field based population; the last group was compared with a similar hospital based sam...

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Autores principales: Tiwari, S.C., Srivastava, Shrikant
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1998
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2966602/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21494483
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description In a specific geographical area an estimate of prevalence of psychiatric morbidility was done. The sample was divided into geriatric population-psychiatrically ill and non-ill, and non-geriatric psychiatrically ill-field based population; the last group was compared with a similar hospital based sample. The total prevalence of psychiatric illness in geriatric group was 42.21%, and neurotic depression, MDP-depressed and anxiety state were most prevalent. To no single factor could be a definitive role, such as diagnostic, etiological, therapeutic or preventive, could be attributed.
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spelling pubmed-29666022011-04-14 GEROPSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN RURAL UTTAR PRADESH Tiwari, S.C. Srivastava, Shrikant Indian J Psychiatry Original Article In a specific geographical area an estimate of prevalence of psychiatric morbidility was done. The sample was divided into geriatric population-psychiatrically ill and non-ill, and non-geriatric psychiatrically ill-field based population; the last group was compared with a similar hospital based sample. The total prevalence of psychiatric illness in geriatric group was 42.21%, and neurotic depression, MDP-depressed and anxiety state were most prevalent. To no single factor could be a definitive role, such as diagnostic, etiological, therapeutic or preventive, could be attributed. Medknow Publications 1998 /pmc/articles/PMC2966602/ /pubmed/21494483 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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GEROPSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN RURAL UTTAR PRADESH
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title_full GEROPSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN RURAL UTTAR PRADESH
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title_short GEROPSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY IN RURAL UTTAR PRADESH
title_sort geropsychiatric morbidity in rural uttar pradesh
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