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BioMed Central, Annals of General Psychiatry, 1(9), 2010

DOI: 10.1186/1744-859x-9-9

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Psychological distress among patients of an orthopaedic outpatient clinic: a study from a low-income country

Journal article published in 2010 by Nusrat Husain ORCID, Syed M. Humail, Imran B. Chaudhry, Raza Rahman, Holly Robinson, Francis Creed
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Abstract

Abstract Background Depression is common among general trauma patients and is associated with a poor outcome. We evaluated the relationship of psychological distress to physical injury, musculoskeletal complaints, and social factors in a low-income country. Methods We administered the Self-Rating Questionnaire (SRQ), the Oslo social support questionnaire, and the Brief Disability Questionnaire (BDQ). Results An SRQ score of 9 or more, which indicates probable depressive disorder, occurred in 45.6% of men and 76.1% of women. A high SRQ score was associated with female sex, little or no education, low income and little social support. Even after these were controlled for there was a significantly higher SRQ score in patients with arthritis, backache/prolapsed disc, major fracture and other bone pathology. Conclusions Depressive disorder appears to be very common in orthopaedic outpatients in Pakistan; both social circumstances and nature of bone pathology are associated with such depression.