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Magnitude of depression and its correlates among elderly population in a rural area of Maharashtra: A cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder among elderly population in India, yet, it is commonly misdiagnosed and undertreated. The exact burden of depression among the elderly population in rural India was not known. OBJECTIVES: To study the magnitude of depression among the el...

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Autores principales: Goswami, Sourav, Deshmukh, Pradeep R., Pawar, Ramesh, Raut, Abhishek V., Bhagat, Mansi, Mehendale, Ashok M.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29564268
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_97_17
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author Goswami, Sourav
Deshmukh, Pradeep R.
Pawar, Ramesh
Raut, Abhishek V.
Bhagat, Mansi
Mehendale, Ashok M.
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Deshmukh, Pradeep R.
Pawar, Ramesh
Raut, Abhishek V.
Bhagat, Mansi
Mehendale, Ashok M.
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description BACKGROUND: Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder among elderly population in India, yet, it is commonly misdiagnosed and undertreated. The exact burden of depression among the elderly population in rural India was not known. OBJECTIVES: To study the magnitude of depression among the elderly masses in rural Maharashtra and to find its correlates. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This is a cross sectional study, carried out among the elderly (≥60 years) population of both sexes residing in the field practice area of the department of community medicine. Geriatric depression scale was used for screening depression among the study population. Data collection was completed within 2 months using convenience sampling. Ethical approval was taken before beginning the study. Magnitude was expressed in percentage along with its 95% confidence interval (CI). Univariate and multivariate logistic regression was carried out to study associated correlates. Odds ratio and 95% CI was used to express association. RESULTS: The magnitude of depression among the elderly population was found to be 41.7% (95% CI 36.1–47.4). We got the significant positive association of female sex, living without spouse, lacking in decision making capability, a victim of abuse or neglect, or suffering from chronic illnesses with depression among elderly population in univariate analysis that did not hold good in the multivariate logistic regression. Our study showed the prevalence of mild depression among elderly to be 26.72% and that of severe depression to be 15.17%. CONCLUSION: To deal with this huge social problem of depression among the elderly population, more enthusiastic steps should be undertaken.
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spelling pubmed-58484032018-03-21 Magnitude of depression and its correlates among elderly population in a rural area of Maharashtra: A cross-sectional study Goswami, Sourav Deshmukh, Pradeep R. Pawar, Ramesh Raut, Abhishek V. Bhagat, Mansi Mehendale, Ashok M. J Family Med Prim Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder among elderly population in India, yet, it is commonly misdiagnosed and undertreated. The exact burden of depression among the elderly population in rural India was not known. OBJECTIVES: To study the magnitude of depression among the elderly masses in rural Maharashtra and to find its correlates. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This is a cross sectional study, carried out among the elderly (≥60 years) population of both sexes residing in the field practice area of the department of community medicine. Geriatric depression scale was used for screening depression among the study population. Data collection was completed within 2 months using convenience sampling. Ethical approval was taken before beginning the study. Magnitude was expressed in percentage along with its 95% confidence interval (CI). Univariate and multivariate logistic regression was carried out to study associated correlates. Odds ratio and 95% CI was used to express association. RESULTS: The magnitude of depression among the elderly population was found to be 41.7% (95% CI 36.1–47.4). We got the significant positive association of female sex, living without spouse, lacking in decision making capability, a victim of abuse or neglect, or suffering from chronic illnesses with depression among elderly population in univariate analysis that did not hold good in the multivariate logistic regression. Our study showed the prevalence of mild depression among elderly to be 26.72% and that of severe depression to be 15.17%. CONCLUSION: To deal with this huge social problem of depression among the elderly population, more enthusiastic steps should be undertaken. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5848403/ /pubmed/29564268 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_97_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 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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Goswami, Sourav
Deshmukh, Pradeep R.
Pawar, Ramesh
Raut, Abhishek V.
Bhagat, Mansi
Mehendale, Ashok M.
Magnitude of depression and its correlates among elderly population in a rural area of Maharashtra: A cross-sectional study
title Magnitude of depression and its correlates among elderly population in a rural area of Maharashtra: A cross-sectional study
title_full Magnitude of depression and its correlates among elderly population in a rural area of Maharashtra: A cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Magnitude of depression and its correlates among elderly population in a rural area of Maharashtra: A cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Magnitude of depression and its correlates among elderly population in a rural area of Maharashtra: A cross-sectional study
title_short Magnitude of depression and its correlates among elderly population in a rural area of Maharashtra: A cross-sectional study
title_sort magnitude of depression and its correlates among elderly population in a rural area of maharashtra: a cross-sectional study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848403/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29564268
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_97_17
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