1 Gerontological center
2“Etugen medical school”
3 School of Public Health, Health Sciences University
4 Mental health department, Health Sciences University
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In Mongolia, number of surveys has been completed on prevalence of mental diseases, but there is a lack of surveys on determining depression of the elderly, so this became a background for the research. In this cross-sectional study, one cluster from each of the five regions of Mongolia was randomly chosen and total 1207 elderly aged 60 years and over for men and 55 years and over for women were recruited in the study. The research was conducted by using the internationally recognized Geriatric Depression Test 6 with 30 items, which reveals depression, ADL7 and IADL8 tests.
There were 392 males and 815 females in the survey. Some 16.5% (199) of patients were found to have depression and among patients with depression there were 27.6% (55) males and 72.3% (144) females, which had statistical significant difference of p=0.001. Depression was found in 165 patients in 1000 elderly. The mean age of elderly with depression was 67.9, 67.1±10 and 70.2±7.2 in males and females respectively.
Some 25.5% of patients were in Gobi and 40.1% in Khangai region, which were considered to be higher compared to other regions. There was found significant correlation of depression with region (P<0.0001).
In conclusion, the prevalence of depression among Mongolian elderly is found to be 165 per 1000. Depression of the elderly is dependent from gender, educational background, income, marital status and family members whom they live with.
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