Prevalence of Depression in patients of Parkinson disease at District Bannu

Abstract

Depression is most common non-motor symptom which is mostly associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD) with high negative impact on functional level of the patient life. There are limited reports available on asian population especially from Pakistan. The present study was designed to investigate the prevalence of depression in PD patients of district Bannu, KPK, province of Pakistan. Fifty one PD patients already diagnosed by clinical neurophysicians were recruited to current study. A standard and well-defined questionnaire was used which helps in collection and sensitively evaluation of the data and then score was assigned using Beck Depression inventory- II (BDI-II) to depression evidences. BDI-II contains twenty one items questions and the scores may range from 0 to 63. The scores are higher, severe is the depression. We found the (37.2%) prevalence of depression in fifty one PD patients of district Bannu, in which total forty four were male and seven were female participants. Among them total nineteen depressed patients were found in which twelve (23.5%) were males and total seven females (13.7%). Depression has statistically significant relationship with gender (p-value: 0.00). While no significance relationship was found with age, disease duration, education and handedness. Depression is significantly present in number of PD patients in Pakistani population. This finding will help the clinicians to do psychiatric evaluation of depression in all PD patients for proper management and early detection.