Psychosocial Assessment of Patients Attending Geriatrics OPD at Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 7
Abstract
Background: Health status is an important factor that has a signifi-cant impact on the quality of life of an elderly population. The aim of the study is to determine the medi-cal, psychological and social char-acteristics among geriatric patients. Methods: A hospital based study was conducted in Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad. The patients aged 65 years and above were included in the geriatrics outpatient depart-ment. The geriatric patients were interviewed during their geriatric clinic visit using a structured ques-tionnaire regarding their socio-demographic characteristics, addic-tion history, perceived health status and a short version of the geriatric depression scale. Results: Depression was found in 31.5% of the patients. It was due to combined effect of sedentary life style, medication used and greater number of reported symptoms. Not due to difference in gender, age group, loss of spouse, employment, educational status & living ar-rangement. Conclusions: In order to improve the health status of the geriatric pa-tients it is important to carry out more studies in different areas to identify various factors that are re-lated to psychological distress and disability, which should lead to ef-forts to develop effective pro-grammes in disease prevention.
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Neeta Mathur
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