Depression in Chronically ill Patients of Railway General Hospital, Pakistan

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Ashhub H Rana, Osama Babar

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), chronic diseases are the leading cause of death and disability worldwide and estimated to contribute to 73% of all deaths by 2020. In addition to the difficulty in effectively managing chronic diseases, they are often complicated further by the co-morbid depression stemming from the original disease. Depression has the highest burden of disease affecting more than 264 million people worldwide and worsens the burden of co-existing chronic medical diseases as well. A bidirectional relation exists between depression and chronic medical diseases. Statistical mapping of chronically ill patients of Pakistan suggests that 50% of its population suffers from some form of chronic disease. Little data exists for the prevalence of depression in chronically ill patients from most of Pakistan. Our objectives were to observe the patterns of depression in chronically ill patients and outline the need for intervention (if any) on a population of Railway General Hospital (RGH - a tertiary healthcare hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan). We also aimed at finding out the relation (if any) of age, gender, number of hospital admissions, education and effectiveness of medical disease management with depr...Continue Reading

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