Volume : VII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

Depression After Retirement: A Cross Sectional Study

Dr Anand Saoji, Dr Manish Thakre

Abstract :

Background:

Individuals who have worked for a major part of their lives are likely to get affected by retirement. Depression in post-retirement life is a routine occurrence and fairly commonly seen in individuals attending psychiatry OPD. Since old age itself is associated with increased incidence of depression, anxiety and other cognitive defects it is important not to attribute depression solely to retirement. Many studies have come up with conflicting conclusions as to whether retirement have a positive or negative impact on mental health.

Study Design:

This was a cross sectional study comprising of 60 patients selected on the basis of pre-defined inclusion criteria and was carried out in Department of psychiatry of a tertiary care medical institute situated in an urban area. All patients attending psychiatry OPD who were retired within last 3 years were included in this study. Dependent variable of our study was depression while independent variables were demographic and clinical factors such as age, gender, marital status, financial status, residence status, education level and presence of social support.  All the patients were interviewed using the preformed questionnaire specifically designed for this study. The data was tabulated and analyzed using paired ‘t’ test. For statistical comparisons P value less than 0.05 was taken as significant.

Results:

Out of 60 studied individuals there were 42 males and 18 females with a M:F ratio of 1:0.42. 54 (90%) patients belonged to age group more than 58 years and retired as per age while 6 (10%) patients took voluntary retirement. Majority of the patients were married and living with spouse (70%) followed by widowed or divorced in 25% cases. 5% patients were never married. advancing age, marital status (living alone) and absence of social group was associated with increased risk of depression after retirement. Strong social support was found to be having protective effect against post-retirement depression.

 

Conclusion:

Depression is fairly common in post-retirement life. A strong social support system and getting involved in social work was found to have a protective effect against depression in post-retirement life.

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Dr Anand Saoji, Dr Manish Thakre, Depression After Retirement: A Cross Sectional Study, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-7 | Issue-6 | June-2018

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