Open AccessPrevalence of depression and associated risk factors among the elderly in urban and rural field practice areas of a tertiary care institution in Ludhiana
Author(s) -
Paramita Sengupta,
AnoopI Benjamin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/0019-557x.152845
Subject(s) - geriatric depression scale , depression (economics) , gerontology , functional illiteracy , odds ratio , population , medicine , demography , residence , rural area , psychiatry , cognition , environmental health , pathology , law , political science , economics , depressive symptoms , macroeconomics , sociology
Depression, the most common psychiatric disorder among the elderly, is not yet perceived as an important health problem in India, where few population-based studies have addressed this problem.
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