Background: Depression is common among general trauma patients and is associated with a poor outcome. We evaluated the relationship of psychological distress to physical injury, musculoskeletal complaints, and social factors in a low-income country.Methods: We administered the Self-Rating Questionnaire (SRQ), the Oslo social support questionnaire, and the Brief Disability Questionnaire (BDQ).Results: An SRQ score of 9 or more, which indicates probable depressive disorder, occurred in 45.6% of men and 76.1% of women. A high SRQ score was associated with female sex, little or no education, low income and little social support. Even after these were controlled for there was a significantly higher SRQ score in patients with arthritis, backache/prolapsed disc, major fracture and other bone pathology.Conclusions: Depressive disorder appears to be very common in orthopaedic outpatients in Pakistan; both social circumstances and nature of bone pathology are associated with such depression. © 2010 Husain et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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Husain, N., Humail, S. M., Chaudhry, I. B., Rahman, R., Robinson, H., & Creed, F. (2010). Psychological distress among patients of an orthopaedic outpatient clinic: A study from a low-income country. Annals of General Psychiatry, 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-859X-9-9
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