Psychiatric Comorbidity Among Patients With Hip Fracture - Study From North India

Rameshwar S Manhas; Rakesh Banal; Amit Sharma; Jagdish R Thappa; Angli Manhas; Gaurav S Manhas

Volume : VIII, Issue : VI, June - 2019

Psychiatric Comorbidity Among Patients With Hip Fracture - Study From North India

Rameshwar S Manhas, Rakesh Banal, Amit Sharma, Jagdish R Thappa, Angli Manhas, Gaurav S Manhas

Abstract :

Background: The elderly hip fractures are associated with high rates of psychiatric illnesses which have adverse effects on several important outcomes. The most common comorbid conditions associated with hip fractures are delirium, depression and dementia & their impact can be decreased with appropriate psychiatric interventions. Aims: To find out various psychiatric comorbidities among patients with hip fracture. Materials & Methods: The present observational, cross-sectional study was conducted among the patients of hip fracture who were admitted in a tertiary care hospital Jammu. After meeting inclusion and exclusion criteria 68 patients were participated in the study. Psychiatric diagnosis of the patients was made according to DSM 5. Results: The mean age of studied patients was 80.4(�8.5) years. 54.4% patients in this study were above the age of 80 years . Females were 80.9% whereas 19.1% were males. Total of 57.4% patients were suffering from delirium, 23.5% from dementia and only 19.1% were suffering from depression. Conclusion: From present study, it has been concluded the most frequent neuropsychiatric comorbidities which occurs in elderly patients with hip fracture are delirium, dementia and depression which were significantly associated with the functional outcome in these patients.