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Grover S, Dalla E, Mehra A, et al. Physical Comorbidity and its Impact on Symptom Profile of Depression among Elderly Patients Attending Psychiatry Services of a Tertiary Care Hospital. Indian J Psychol Med. 2017;39(4):450-456doi: 10.4103/0253-7176.211764.
Grover, S., Dalla, E., Mehra, A., Chakrabarti, S., & Avasthi, A. (2017). Physical Comorbidity and its Impact on Symptom Profile of Depression among Elderly Patients Attending Psychiatry Services of a Tertiary Care Hospital. Indian journal of psychological medicine, 39(4), 450-456. https://doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.211764
Grover, Sandeep, et al. "Physical Comorbidity and its Impact on Symptom Profile of Depression among Elderly Patients Attending Psychiatry Services of a Tertiary Care Hospital." Indian journal of psychological medicine vol. 39,4 (2017): 450-456. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.211764
Grover S, Dalla E, Mehra A, Chakrabarti S, Avasthi A. Physical Comorbidity and its Impact on Symptom Profile of Depression among Elderly Patients Attending Psychiatry Services of a Tertiary Care Hospital. Indian J Psychol Med. 2017 Jul-Aug;39(4):450-456. doi: 10.4103/0253-7176.211764. PMID: 28852239; PMCID: PMC5559993.
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Indian J Psychol Med. 2017 Jul-Aug;39(4):450-456. doi: 10.4103/0253-7176.211764.

Physical Comorbidity and its Impact on Symptom Profile of Depression among Elderly Patients Attending Psychiatry Services of a Tertiary Care Hospital.

Indian journal of psychological medicine

Sandeep Grover, Eish Dalla, Aseem Mehra, Subho Chakrabarti, Ajit Avasthi

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.

PMID: 28852239 PMCID: PMC5559993 DOI: 10.4103/0253-7176.211764

Abstract

AIM: This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of physical comorbidities among elderly patients with depression attending psychiatric services and the secondary aim of the study was to evaluate the influence of physical comorbidities on symptom profile of depression.

METHODOLOGY: 140 patients with a diagnosis of depression as per the International Classification of Diseases-10 criteria were evaluated on Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and a physical comorbidity checklist.

RESULTS: More than two-third (72.1%) of the patients had at least one physical illness. Out of those with physical comorbidity, more than half (57 out of 101) had at least 2 physical illnesses. The most commonly involved systems were cardiovascular system (

CONCLUSION: Elderly patients with depression have high rates of physical comorbidities. Clinicians managing elderly patients with depression must get their patient thoroughly evaluated for the presence of various physical comorbidities.

Keywords: Depression; elderly; physical comorbidities

Conflict of interest statement

There are no conflicts of interest.

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