Department of Psychiatry, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Lagankhel, Lalitpur, Nepal.
Department of Psychiatry, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Sunsari, Nepal.
JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc. 2022 May 5;60(249):457-460. doi: 10.31729/jnma.7497.
Depression is a common mental health problem among soldiers worldwide. Depression decreases the efficiency and productivity of the soldiers. The objective of this research is to find out the prevalence of depression among armed police force soldiers serving in a police headquarter.
A descriptive cross-sectional study was done on a total of 314 soldiers serving in the eastern regional armed police force headquarters of Nepal from January 15, 2017 to June 14, 2017 after receiving ethical clearance was taken from the Institutional Review Committee (Reference number: 140/073/074-IRC). Convenience sampling was done. Beck Depression Inventory was used to assess the prevalence of depression. Data were collected and entered in the Statistical Package for the Social Science version 15.0. which was used for data analysis. Point estimate at 95% Confidence Interval was calculated along with frequency and percentage for binary data.
Among 314 soldiers, 133 (42.36%) (36.89-47.83 at a 95% Confidence Interval) soldiers had depression where, 47 (14.97%) had mild mood disturbance, 33 (10.51%) had borderline depression, 40 (12.74%) had moderate depression, 10 (3.18%) had severe depression and 3 (0.96%) had extreme depression.
The prevalence of depression in our study was lower when compared to other studies conducted in similar settings.
armed forces personnel; depression; depressive symptoms; soldiers.
抑郁是全球士兵中常见的心理健康问题。抑郁会降低士兵的效率和生产力。本研究的目的是了解在尼泊尔东部地区警察总部服役的武警部队士兵中抑郁的患病率。
2017 年 1 月 15 日至 6 月 14 日，在获得机构审查委员会（参考号：140/073/074-IRC）的伦理批准后，对尼泊尔东部地区武警部队总部的 314 名士兵进行了一项描述性横断面研究。采用便利抽样法。采用贝克抑郁量表评估抑郁的患病率。收集数据并输入社会科学统计软件包 15.0 进行数据分析。计算了 95%置信区间的点估计值，以及二项数据的频率和百分比。
在 314 名士兵中，有 133 名（42.36%）（95%置信区间为 36.89-47.83）患有抑郁症，其中 47 名（14.97%）有轻度情绪障碍，33 名（10.51%）有边缘性抑郁症，40 名（12.74%）有中度抑郁症，10 名（3.18%）有重度抑郁症，3 名（0.96%）有极度抑郁症。
与在类似环境中进行的其他研究相比，我们的研究中抑郁的患病率较低。
武装部队人员；抑郁；抑郁症状；士兵。
