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S V Kamble1, G B Dhumale, R C goyal
1Community Medicine, Rural Medical College, Loni, Ahmednagar. drsuchit@rediffmail.com
Abstract:
Elderly people are prone to psychiatric disorders through vicissitudes such as social isolation, malnutrition, economic and emotional depression. A cross sectional study was conducted in a Primary Health Centre Area in Ahmednagar district of Maharastra during 2003-2005 to assess prevalence of depression among elderly persons & to study social factors influencing depression. Goldberg and Bridges' scale was used to diagnose depression among 494 randomly selected study subjects. 31.4% of elderly persons were having depression. It was more commori among females (37.4%), illiterates (37.9%), class V socioeconomic status (55.8%), divorced & unmarried.
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