Socio Demographic Correlates of Depressed Patients Attending a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria

Chukwujekwu, Chidozie Donald; Olose, Emmanuel Omamurhomu; Dariah, Gerald O.; Okeafor, Chukwuma Ugochukwu

doi:10.4172/2155-6105.1000313

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“…The married subjects were higher in depression with suicidal behaviour group (68%) than depression without suicidal behaviour (64%) groups. 18 It was found that being married might have protective effect on suicidal behaviour due to better social and interpersonal support. The depression with suicidal behaviour group had higher preponderance of (76%) Hindu subjects which is in agreement of the local geographical distribution of the religion.…”

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A comparative study of inflammatory marker highly sensitive C- Reactive Protein in depression patients exhibiting suicidal behaviour and depression patients without suicidal behaviour

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Background: Recent research have found a link between inflammatory pathway and suicidal behaviour. hs-CRP, IL, TNF have been shown to have significant alterations in suicidality, however multiple covariates influence this relationship. One of the main limitations of most of the studies is that they have evaluated the CRP in patients demonstrating suicidal behaviour but not in depression. No study has been conducted in Indian subpopulation with parameters of our study. Aims of the study was to compare hsCRP levels between depression patients with suicidal behaviour and without suicidal behaviour.Methods: Authors compared 50 depression patients with suicidal behaviour and 50 depression patients without suicidal behaviour, diagnosed using ICD10. Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS‑17), Suicide behaviour Questionnaire- Revised (SBQ-R), Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (BSSI) were applied for assessment of depression and suicidality. Highly sensitive CRP was measured using autoanalyzer.Results: hsCRP levels were significantly high in depression patients with suicidal behaviour (4.12 mg/dl) than depression without suicidal behaviour (2.42 mg/dl). Duration of illness, HAM-D, BSSI and SBQ-R scores correlated positively with hsCRP levels.Conclusions: Depression with suicidal behaviour patients have a significantly higher hs-CRP levels than depression without suicidal behaviour. Patients of depression with suicidal behaviour group have a strong positive correlation between hs-CRP levels and HAM-D, BSSI and SBQ-R scores.

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A comparative study of inflammatory marker highly sensitive C- Reactive Protein in depression patients exhibiting suicidal behaviour and depression patients without suicidal behaviour

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Maternal mental well-being and recent child illnesses–A cross-sectional survey analysis from Jigawa State, Nigeria

Salako

Bakare²,

Colbourn³

et al. 2023

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Child health indicators in Northern Nigeria remain low. The bidirectional association between child health and maternal well-being is also poorly understood. We aim to describe the association between recent child illness, socio-demographic factors and maternal mental well-being in Jigawa State, Nigeria. We analysed a cross-sectional household survey conducted in Kiyawa local government area, Jigawa State, from January 2020 to March 2020 amongst women aged 16–49 with at least one child under-5 years. We used two-stage random sampling. First, we used systematic random sampling of compounds, with the number of compounds based on the size of the community. The second stage used simple random sampling to select one eligible woman per compound. Mental well-being was assessed using the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Score (SWEMWBS). We used linear regression to estimate associations between recent child illness, care-seeking and socio-demographic factors, and mental well-being. Overall 1,661 eligible women were surveyed, and 8.5% had high mental well-being (metric score of 25.0–35.0) and 29.5% had low mental well-being (metric score of 7.0–17.9). Increasing wealth quintile (adj coeff: 1.53; 95% CI: 0.91–2.15) not being a subsistence farmer (highest adj coeff: 3.23; 95% CI: 2.31–4.15) and having a sick child in the last 2-weeks (adj coeff: 1.25; 95% CI: 0.73–1.77) were significantly associated with higher mental well-being. Higher levels of education and increasing woman’s age were significantly associated with lower mental well-being. Findings contradicted our working hypothesis that a recently sick child would be associated with lower mental well-being. We were surprised that education and late marriage, which are commonly attributed to women’s empowerment and autonomy, were not linked to better well-being here. Future work could focus on locally defined tools to measure well-being reflecting the norms and values of communities, ensuring solutions that are culturally acceptable and desirable to women with low mental well-being are initiated.

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Clinical and Socio-Demographic Corelates in Patients of Depression With Suicidal Behaviour.

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Rastogi²,

Prajapati³

et al. 2021

IJAR

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Background: Suicidal behaviour is frequently seen in context of depression. Few studies have demonstrated sociodemographic distinction between depression with and without suicidal behaviour. This study compares various psycho-socio-demographic factors associated with depression in context of suicidal behaviour. Materials And Methods: 60 depression patients with suicidal behaviour and 60 depression patients without suicidal behaviour were compared using a specially designed intake proforma, ICD-10 diagnostic criteria for research,Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression-17 (HAMD-17). Results: Depression with suicidal behaviour had more females, married, Hindu, literate, low socioeconomic status, urban locality, nuclear family samples, with earlier age of onset of illness. The total HAM-D scores were signicantly higher in the depression with suicidal behaviour group. Conclusions: Sociodemographic parameters are intricated crucially with suicidality.The present study identies female gender, nuclear family, urban background, unemployment and literacy to be an independent risk factor for suicidality. Suicidal behaviour increases with amount of time spent in depressive illness. Hence socio-demographic factors can be helpful as indicators of suicidal behaviour with depression.

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Socio Demographic Correlates of Depressed Patients Attending a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria

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A comparative study of inflammatory marker highly sensitive C- Reactive Protein in depression patients exhibiting suicidal behaviour and depression patients without suicidal behaviour

A comparative study of inflammatory marker highly sensitive C- Reactive Protein in depression patients exhibiting suicidal behaviour and depression patients without suicidal behaviour

Maternal mental well-being and recent child illnesses–A cross-sectional survey analysis from Jigawa State, Nigeria

Clinical and Socio-Demographic Corelates in Patients of Depression With Suicidal Behaviour.

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