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A STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY OF THE ELDERLY POPULATION OF A RURAL COMMUNITY IN WEST BENGAL

A door to door field-survey was conducted in two villages by a team of psychiatrists with the aim of assessing the mental morbidity of the population. The present communication is restricted to the mental morbidity of the elderly population aged 60 years and above. The total sample comprised 183 per...

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Autores principales: Nandi, P.S., Banerjee, G., Mukherjee, S.P., Nandi, S., Nandi, D.N.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1997
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584058
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author Nandi, P.S.
Banerjee, G.
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description A door to door field-survey was conducted in two villages by a team of psychiatrists with the aim of assessing the mental morbidity of the population. The present communication is restricted to the mental morbidity of the elderly population aged 60 years and above. The total sample comprised 183 persons (male 85, female 98). Majority of the families (44.2%) belonged to class IV according to Pareek and Trivedi's scale. Sixty one percent of the elderly population was mentally ill. Women had a higher rate of morbidity than men (77.6% and 42.4% repetitively). The overwhelming majority of the affected persons were depressives. Rate of dementia was low.
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spelling pubmed-29670962011-05-16 A STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY OF THE ELDERLY POPULATION OF A RURAL COMMUNITY IN WEST BENGAL Nandi, P.S. Banerjee, G. Mukherjee, S.P. Nandi, S. Nandi, D.N. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article A door to door field-survey was conducted in two villages by a team of psychiatrists with the aim of assessing the mental morbidity of the population. The present communication is restricted to the mental morbidity of the elderly population aged 60 years and above. The total sample comprised 183 persons (male 85, female 98). Majority of the families (44.2%) belonged to class IV according to Pareek and Trivedi's scale. Sixty one percent of the elderly population was mentally ill. Women had a higher rate of morbidity than men (77.6% and 42.4% repetitively). The overwhelming majority of the affected persons were depressives. Rate of dementia was low. Medknow Publications 1997 /pmc/articles/PMC2967096/ /pubmed/21584058 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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Nandi, P.S.
Banerjee, G.
Mukherjee, S.P.
Nandi, S.
Nandi, D.N.
A STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY OF THE ELDERLY POPULATION OF A RURAL COMMUNITY IN WEST BENGAL
title A STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY OF THE ELDERLY POPULATION OF A RURAL COMMUNITY IN WEST BENGAL
title_full A STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY OF THE ELDERLY POPULATION OF A RURAL COMMUNITY IN WEST BENGAL
title_fullStr A STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY OF THE ELDERLY POPULATION OF A RURAL COMMUNITY IN WEST BENGAL
title_full_unstemmed A STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY OF THE ELDERLY POPULATION OF A RURAL COMMUNITY IN WEST BENGAL
title_short A STUDY OF PSYCHIATRIC MORBIDITY OF THE ELDERLY POPULATION OF A RURAL COMMUNITY IN WEST BENGAL
title_sort study of psychiatric morbidity of the elderly population of a rural community in west bengal
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2967096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584058
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