Assessment of mental health issues among geriatric population during COVID19 pandemic, Indian perspective

OBJECTIVES: Study was aimed to assess magnitude of mental health problems among geriatric population during COVID19 pandemic. METHODOLOGY: Study was a cross-sectional observational study, total of 106 participants (Age ≥60 years) of either gender included in study. Mental health variables depressive...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Vijay, Klanidhi, Kamal Bandhu Kr, Chakrawarty, Avinash, Singh, Jawahar, Priti, Chatterjee, Prasun, Dey, Aparajit Ballav
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8552627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34740131
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102897
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description OBJECTIVES: Study was aimed to assess magnitude of mental health problems among geriatric population during COVID19 pandemic. METHODOLOGY: Study was a cross-sectional observational study, total of 106 participants (Age ≥60 years) of either gender included in study. Mental health variables depressive and anxiety were assessed using GDS and HAM-A. RESULTS: On GDS, 20(18.87%) patients had depressive symptoms and on HAM-A, 24(22.6%) patients were having anxiety symptoms. CONCLUSION: Study highlight that Geriatric population have significant mental health issues during COVID19 pandemic, it should not be overlooked. It’s necessary to provide elderly psychological intervention measures to improve their wellbeing.
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spelling pubmed-85526272021-10-29 Assessment of mental health issues among geriatric population during COVID19 pandemic, Indian perspective Kumar, Vijay Klanidhi, Kamal Bandhu Kr Chakrawarty, Avinash Singh, Jawahar Priti Chatterjee, Prasun Dey, Aparajit Ballav Asian J Psychiatr Short Communication OBJECTIVES: Study was aimed to assess magnitude of mental health problems among geriatric population during COVID19 pandemic. METHODOLOGY: Study was a cross-sectional observational study, total of 106 participants (Age ≥60 years) of either gender included in study. Mental health variables depressive and anxiety were assessed using GDS and HAM-A. RESULTS: On GDS, 20(18.87%) patients had depressive symptoms and on HAM-A, 24(22.6%) patients were having anxiety symptoms. CONCLUSION: Study highlight that Geriatric population have significant mental health issues during COVID19 pandemic, it should not be overlooked. It’s necessary to provide elderly psychological intervention measures to improve their wellbeing. Elsevier B.V. 2021-12 2021-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8552627/ /pubmed/34740131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2021.102897 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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