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Morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among elderly population of Raichur district, Karnataka, India

CONTEXT: India is an “aging nation” with 7.7% of its population being above 60 years of age. It has resulted in a rise of both physical and mental health morbidities. AIMS: This study aimed to gather information regarding the morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among the elderly...

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Autores principales: George, Leyanna Susan, Deshpande, Sanjay, Krishna Kumar, M. K., Patil, Ramesh S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29302544
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.220025
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author George, Leyanna Susan
Deshpande, Sanjay
Krishna Kumar, M. K.
Patil, Ramesh S.
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description CONTEXT: India is an “aging nation” with 7.7% of its population being above 60 years of age. It has resulted in a rise of both physical and mental health morbidities. AIMS: This study aimed to gather information regarding the morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among the elderly residing in the rural villages of Raichur, to understand the need for geriatric health-care facilities. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: This community-based cross-sectional study was carried out in six rural villages of Raichur District, of which 230 elderly were selected randomly. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The data were collected using a questionnaire, clinical history, examination, and cross-checking of medical records. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: Data were analyzed using Epi Info version-3.5.3. RESULTS: The prevalence of morbidity was 91.7% with an average of 3/person. Females (58.9%) had more morbidities than men (41.1%). The 3 most common morbidities were orthopedic (50.5%), cataract (50.4%), and respiratory (31.3%). 26.6% suffered from gastrointestinal morbidities while 23.9% had dental problems. 20.9% had hypertension with equal prevalence among both sexes. Only 17.4% were diabetics with majority being women. Central nervous system morbidities were 14.2% while 9.6% suffered from hearing loss and varicose veins. 8.2% had genitourinary-urinary morbidities and incontinence (1.7%) was common among both sexes. Depression (71.1%) and dermatological morbidities (4.7%) were prevalent among women. Only 3.5% suffered from cardiac morbidity and 0.4% from cancer. Significant association was found between age and morbidity and also between socioeconomic class and morbidity pattern. CONCLUSIONS: Geriatric care should become an integral part of primary health care. Regular screening and Information, Education, and Communication activities need to be provided early in life for ensuring healthy aging.
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spelling pubmed-57490832018-01-04 Morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among elderly population of Raichur district, Karnataka, India George, Leyanna Susan Deshpande, Sanjay Krishna Kumar, M. K. Patil, Ramesh S. J Family Med Prim Care Original Article CONTEXT: India is an “aging nation” with 7.7% of its population being above 60 years of age. It has resulted in a rise of both physical and mental health morbidities. AIMS: This study aimed to gather information regarding the morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among the elderly residing in the rural villages of Raichur, to understand the need for geriatric health-care facilities. SETTINGS AND DESIGN: This community-based cross-sectional study was carried out in six rural villages of Raichur District, of which 230 elderly were selected randomly. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The data were collected using a questionnaire, clinical history, examination, and cross-checking of medical records. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS USED: Data were analyzed using Epi Info version-3.5.3. RESULTS: The prevalence of morbidity was 91.7% with an average of 3/person. Females (58.9%) had more morbidities than men (41.1%). The 3 most common morbidities were orthopedic (50.5%), cataract (50.4%), and respiratory (31.3%). 26.6% suffered from gastrointestinal morbidities while 23.9% had dental problems. 20.9% had hypertension with equal prevalence among both sexes. Only 17.4% were diabetics with majority being women. Central nervous system morbidities were 14.2% while 9.6% suffered from hearing loss and varicose veins. 8.2% had genitourinary-urinary morbidities and incontinence (1.7%) was common among both sexes. Depression (71.1%) and dermatological morbidities (4.7%) were prevalent among women. Only 3.5% suffered from cardiac morbidity and 0.4% from cancer. Significant association was found between age and morbidity and also between socioeconomic class and morbidity pattern. CONCLUSIONS: Geriatric care should become an integral part of primary health care. Regular screening and Information, Education, and Communication activities need to be provided early in life for ensuring healthy aging. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5749083/ /pubmed/29302544 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.220025 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among elderly population of Raichur district, Karnataka, India
title Morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among elderly population of Raichur district, Karnataka, India
title_full Morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among elderly population of Raichur district, Karnataka, India
title_fullStr Morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among elderly population of Raichur district, Karnataka, India
title_full_unstemmed Morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among elderly population of Raichur district, Karnataka, India
title_short Morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among elderly population of Raichur district, Karnataka, India
title_sort morbidity pattern and its sociodemographic determinants among elderly population of raichur district, karnataka, india
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29302544
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.220025
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