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Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba
2013
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- Depression in an Older Adult Rural Population in India Sati P. Sinha Saurabh R. Shrivastava Jegadeesh Ramasamy Medicina aging rural India elderly Depression INTRODUCTION With a rapidly aging society, geriatric mental health is emerging as an important public health concern. According to the WHO, prevalence of depression in adults aged 60 years in devel-oped and developing countries was 0.5 million and 4.8 million respec-tively in 2004. In India, increased life expectancy led to a rise in the older adult population between 2001 and 2011, expected to reach 324 million by 2050. OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of depression and assess association between sociodemographic parameters and depression among older adults in a rural Indian community.METHODS A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in Febru-ary and March 2012 in the rural village of Sembakkam, Kancheepuram District in the state of Tamil Nadu, India; the village has a population of 5948, 3.1% of whom are aged 60 years. Universal sampling technique was employed, in which every household in the community was visited and all elderly persons were selected. After obtaining written informed consent (a thumbprint was taken if the person was illiterate), partici-pants were assessed face to face for depression using the Short Form Geriatric Depression Scale. The inclusion criterion was a score >24 on the mini-mental state examination. Final sample size was 103. Study variables included sociodemographic parameters such as age, sex, education, occupation, socioeconomic status, and marital status. Data entry and statistical analysis used SPSS version 17. RESULTS Of 103 respondents interviewed, 73 (70.9%) were aged 6069 years and 58 (56.3%) were male. Forty-four (42.7%) individu-als (17 males, 27 females) were found to be depressed; 23 (22.3%) with mild depression, 14 (13.6%) moderate depression and 7 (6.8%) severe depression. Female sex and widowhood were signiÞ cantly associated with depression.CONCLUSIONS Depression, particularly mild depression, is com-mon in this rural population of older adults, particularly among women and widowed elderly. These study Þ ndings can help program manag-ers implement a more comprehensive strategy in this community for timely interventions to promote mental health and prevent geriatric depression. 2013 artículo científico 1555-7960 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=437542095010 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=4375 MEDICC Review application/pdf Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba MEDICC Review (Estados Unidos de América) Num.4 Vol.15