A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY TO KNOW DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY RATO IN PATEINTS HAVING DIFFERENT MEDICAL DISORDERS

Objective: To evaluate the rate of depression and anxiety in patients suffering from various medical conditions.

Study design: A cross-sectional study.

Place and Duration: In Mayo hospital, Lahore for one-year duration. Patients were selected from cardiology, dermatology, oncology and Gastroenterology Department.

Subjects and methods: Participants included study with appropriate sampling techniques. 339 patients with heart, cancer, liver and dermatological diseases from Mayo hospital participated in the study. Synchronization of psychiatric disorders was detected with the help of DSM IV TR criteria for depression and generalized anxiety.

Findings: The main diagnoses were anxiety (n = 32, 9.43%), ages 50 to 59, ages 40 to 49 and depression (14.9%, n = 31). Depression (% 15.04, n = 51), Anxiety (8.84%, n = 30), depression and anxiety (n = 7.37%,25) were common in all patients. ignorance. Depression (16.81%, n = 57) and Anxiety (10.91%, n = 37) were more common in housewives. The most common diagnosis was depression (27.43%, n = 93), anxiety (22.71%,n = 77) and depression and anxiety (13.27%, n = 45) in patients who were married. Patients with anxiety (15.92%, n = 54), common liver and heart disease depression (15.04%, n = 51), depression and anxiety (9.43%, n = 32).

Conclusion: cardiac patients were found mostly depressed. Approximately Half of the cancer patients are depressed and anxious; No pr minimum psychiatric disorders noted in dermatological patients.

Key words: Depression, Anxiety, Cancer, Cardiac, Hepatic, Dermatology, Psychiatric issues.