Open AccessPSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
Author(s) -
Muhammad Khurum Irshad,
Abid Ghafoor Chaudhry
Publication year - 2015
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/2015.22.07.1182
Subject(s) - medicine , anxiety , feeling , locale (computer software) , depression (economics) , dementia , psychiatry , sadness , clinical psychology , mental health , isolation (microbiology) , gerontology , psychology , social psychology , disease , pathology , anger , computer science , economics , macroeconomics , operating system , biology , microbiology and biotechnology
Psychological anthropology is one of the most current academic discipline; theintellectual study of the association between the individual and culture debatably instigatedin the late nineteenth century, when W. H. R. Rivers and his contemporaries commenced anexpedition to Melanesia to examine the perceptions of the local people. Objective: objectiveof the study is to find relationship between old age and psychological disorders. StudyDesign: Cross sectional. Study Locale: The study was conducted in Rawalpindi city. Materialand method: A structured questionnaire was designed to investigate all the variables of thestudy. A sample of 500 respondents were drawn from the older population (older persons) ofRawalpindi city by using convenient sampling technique. Data entry and analysis was doneby using SPSS. Results: There was a significant relationship found between old age andpsychological disorders. According to this study, older people are suffering from psychologicaldisorders namely; anxiety, sadness, depression, isolation, insomnia, dementia, and feelingof being useless. Conclusion: Older persons are more vulnerable to the mental illness andpsychological problems. Some problems are prevailed in high proportion among elder personssuch as anxiety, insomnia and feeling of being useless. Good mind is bound with good health,this clearly depicts that older persons are not suffering from poor psychological health but alsothey are facing adverse health conditions. Statistical observations show that some of the olderadults facing more than one psychological problem, their ratio is 6.2% of total sample.