TY - JOUR AU - Sohail, Nomita AU - Hussain, Shiraz AU - Kakar, Siddique AU - Khan, Sana AU - Alimudin, Mohsin AU - Kamran, Mohammad AU - Ali, Sohail PY - 2021/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - DEPRESSION AND ITS ASSOCIATED FACTORS: A STUDY ON CAREGIVERS OF PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS JF - Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal JA - PAFMJ VL - 71 IS - 6 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.51253/pafmj.v6i6.2971 UR - https://pafmj.org/PAFMJ/article/view/2971 SP - 1933-36 AB - <p><strong>Objective:</strong> To determine the frequency and association of depression among caregivers of psychiatric patients.</p><p><strong>Study Design:</strong> Cross-sectional study.</p><p><strong>Study place and duration:</strong> Outpatient Department of a Tertiary Care Hospital, Rawalpindi, from Sep 2016 to Apr 2017.</p><p><strong>Methodology:</strong> A total of 200 caregivers of psychiatric patients were included in this study. Each caregiver was interviewed by a consultant psychiatrist to measure the frequency of depression according to International Classification of Disease-10 (ICD10) criteria and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) score of &gt;8. Socio-demographic factors were associated with presence of depression by using chi-square test.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> The mean age observed was 35.36 ± 8.39 years. There were 84 (42%) males and 116 (58%) females. Depression was found in 95 (47.5%) caregivers of psychiatric patients in our analysis. Female gender, low socio-economic status and type of psychiatric illness had significant relationship with presence of depression among our target population.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Depression was a highly common undiagnosed entity among the caregivers of psychiatric patients. Female caregivers or caregivers with low socio-economic status should be screened especially for depression in addition to caregivers of patients suffering from psychotic illness.</p> ER -