Level of Depression and Anxiety and Associated Factors Among the Traumatic Orthopedic Injured Inpatients of District Swabi, Pakistan.

Abstract

Purpose: Common mental, psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety in traumatic patients of orthopedic received a little attention in the study. The objective of the study was to examine the predominance of enthusiastic clutters among traumatic orthopedic injury patients and distinguish statistics, social and clinical chance variables.
Material and Methods: This cross-sectional think about was performed in Traumatic injured patients with orthopedic injury conceded to government hospitals of district Swabi between September 2021 and February 2022. The sample size was 306 and convenient sampling technique was used. Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and visual analog scale were utilized to assess the seriousness of uneasiness and misery status.
Result: the total number of participants was 306. For pain evaluations the visual analog scale was used; 36(11.8%) participants were in mild pain, 140(45.8%) participants were in moderate pain and 130(42.5%) participants were in severe pain and the mean and SD of visual analog scale were 3.30±0.67. With respect to hospital anxiety and depression, the 18(5.9%) participants were normal, 76(24.8%) participants were in borderline of anxiety and depression and 212(69.3%) were in abnormal level of anxiety and depression and the mean and SD of hospital depression and anxiety scale were 2.63±0.59.
Conclusion: This study concluded that the prevalence of anxiety and depression is more in male than female in inpatients of district Swabi likewise the visual analog scale also showed that male weas more affected by pain. Visual analog scale also reported that fracture patients were in severe pain than joint dislocation and soft tissue problems. With respect to hospital anxiety and depression scale the fracture patients were in more in abnormal level of anxiety and depression than joint dislocation and soft tissue disease.