Depression is the most common psychologic disorder
that exists among 35–40 percent of people referring to
doctor. Attentive to effect of demographic factors in prevalence
and incidence of depressive disorders, recognition
of high risk groups for depressive disease will be useful
certainly. The aim of this study was to determine
depressed patients demographic characteristics referring
to psychiatric clinc of Fatemi hospital in Ardabil.
In this retrospective descriptive study, 120 records of
patient having to depressive disorder referring to psychiatric
clinic of Ardabil Fatemi hospital were studied and with
using flosheet chart, demographic characteristics of
patients were extraction of their records and were analyzed
by SPSS software. Frequency tables were used in this
analysis.
The findings indicated that between depressed patients
51/66 % were female, 80% married, 59/16% had 1–4
baby and 36/66% had underdiploma education, 38/33%
were housekeeper, 81/66% lived in city, 68/34% were in
the age 24–45 and 43/34% had anxious personality
before disease.
The recognition demographic characteristics help us in
diagnosis of high risk groups of depressive disorder and as
a result prevention of that