Open AccessDEPRESSION;
Author(s) -
Saeed Akhtar,
Bushra Akram,
Azra Yasmeen
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2012.19.03.2124
Subject(s) - medicine , depression (economics) , addiction , etiology , psychiatry , hamilton rating scale for depression , rating scale , alcohol , mood , major depressive disorder , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , economics , macroeconomics , developmental psychology
Objective: Prevalence of Depression in patients presenting with Alcohol and Drug addiction. Place & duration of study: Thestudy was conducted in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, Bahawal Victoria Hospital & Quaid-e-Azam Medical College,Bahawalpur from March, 2009 to May, 2009. Subjects & methods: The sample consisted of 50 in-patients (Male 46, Female 4) with Alcohol &Drug addiction. They were interviewed and results were analysed from the entries in a Performa and Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression.Results: Majority of the patients were male (92%), age group majority (74%) were between 21-40 years. Depression was found in 23(46%)patients, 14(28%) had severe depression and 9(18%) had mild to moderate depression. Conclusions: Significant numbers of patients ofalcohol and drug addiction have depression as co-morbidity, which can have important implications in the aetiology and prognosis. So everypatient seeking treatment for alcohol and drug addiction should be assessed for depression and we should develop a protocol to treatdepression in these patients.