Prevalence of psychiatric illness in rural Maharashtra
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Dentistry - Year 2014, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
Introduction: Psychiatric epidemiology lags behind other branches of epidemiology due to difficulties encountered in conceptualizing, diagnosing, defining a case, sampling, selecting an instrument, lack of resources and stigma. There is great variation in the reported prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in various part of Maharashtra. Aims and objectives: to study the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in the rural Maharashtra. Materials and method: the present study was conducted in nine PHCs selected in the rural area. All the patients were screened for psychiatric morbidity. Results: out of total 500 individuals it as seen that 121 individual were suffering from psychiatric morbidity. Thus the prevalence was 42.4%. Maximum patients (28.30%) were of age group 45 to 54 years followed by 15 to 24 and 25 to 34 years age group (19.34% and 19.81% respectively). the sexwise difference psychiatric morbidity present and absent group was statistically significant (X2= 8.10, df=1, p< 0.01). Conclusion: The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in the rural Maharashtra was 42.4%. With predominance in female and young age group population.
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Pradeep Bodke, Rama Bhosle
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