Goswami Sourav, Deshmukh Pradeep R
Associate Medical Manager, Covance, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Community Medicine, AIIMS, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
Ind Psychiatry J. 2021 Jan-Jun;30(1):90-95. doi: 10.4103/ipj.ipj_43_17. Epub 2021 May 11.
Depression is the most common psychiatric disorder among elderly population in India, which generally remains undiagnosed and undertreated. Exact burden of depression among the elderly population in rural India was not known.
This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of depression among the elderly population in rural population of Wardha, Maharashtra.
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 regressions were done. Odds ratio and 95% CI were used to express association.
Magnitude of depression among the elderly population was found to be 41.7% (95% CI: 36.1-47.4). In this study, we found the following factors to have positively contributed towards depression among elderly population in rural Wardha: female sex, widowed, separated, divorced, decreased decision-making capability, abused, or being suffering from chronic illnesses.
Our study showed the prevalence of mild depression to be 26.72% and that of severe depression to be 15.17% among the elderly study participants.
抑郁症是印度老年人群中最常见的精神疾病，通常仍未得到诊断和治疗。印度农村老年人群中抑郁症的确切负担尚不清楚。
本研究旨在确定马哈拉施特拉邦瓦尔达农村地区老年人群中抑郁症的患病率。
这是一项横断面研究，在社区医学系实地实践区域居住的60岁及以上老年人群中开展。采用老年抑郁量表对研究人群进行抑郁症筛查。使用便利抽样在2个月内完成数据收集。在研究开始前获得了伦理批准。患病率以百分比表示，并给出其95%置信区间（CI）。进行了单因素和多因素逻辑回归分析。优势比和95%CI用于表示关联性。
老年人群中抑郁症的患病率为41.7%（95%CI：36.1 - 47.4）。在本研究中，我们发现以下因素对瓦尔达农村地区老年人群的抑郁症有正向影响：女性、丧偶、分居、离婚、决策能力下降、受虐待或患有慢性病。
我们的研究表明，在老年研究参与者中，轻度抑郁症的患病率为26.72%，重度抑郁症的患病率为15.17%。
