Acomparative study of Depression among patients with hip fracture With psychiatric depressive patients

Authors

  • Abdul zahra al-khafagi college of medicine /Al-Qadisiyah university
  • Ihssan abdul abbas College of Medicine/ Al-Qadisiyah University
  • Mossa O. Mossa Algazali College of medicine / Al-Qadisiyah University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.28922/qmj.2007.3.4.139-145

Abstract

A total (50)patients with hip fracture, admitted to the Al-Diwaniya teaching hospital were screened for the depression and those fitting the criterion for the depression were studied further. 32% of the patients with the hip fracture met the criterion for the depression based on DSMIV. (1) The occurrence of depression and course appeared closely bound up with hip fracture, when compared with depression in (100)psychiatric depressed patients, the hip fracture depressed patients were less severely depressed, less guilty feeling and suicidal, but show sever anxiety, refamdation and helplessness
Objectives
To determine the prevalence of depression among the patients with fracture around the hip compared with psychiatric depressed patients.

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2017-08-27

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