Open AccessThe clinical profile of mentally retarded children in India and prevalence of depression in mothers of the mentally retarded
Author(s) -
Amit Nagarkar,
Jagdish Prashad Sharma,
Shweta Tandon,
Pritesh Goutam
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of psychiatry/indian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.485
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1998-3794
pISSN - 0019-5545
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5545.130500
Subject(s) - mentally retarded , anxiety , depression (economics) , psychiatry , beck depression inventory , rating scale , psychology , medicine , clinical psychology , pediatrics , developmental psychology , economics , macroeconomics
Mental retardation (MR) has a varied phenomenology in different parts of the world. While studying MR, psychological issues of caretakers are equally relevant. A study to investigate the phenomenology of MR in Indian children and the prevalence of depression in their mothers was planned in a teaching institute in Madhya Pradesh with an attached tertiary care hospital.