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Critical Care and Emergency Medicine ISSN: 2474-3674

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Abdelmonem S, Hadi GA, Fayed A, El Sayed I, Mogazy K (2019) A Case Control Study of Risk Factors for Depression in Intensive Care Unit Patients. Int J Crit Care Emerg Med 5:077. doi.org/10.23937/2474-3674/1510077

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© 2019 Abdelmonem S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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A Case Control Study of Risk Factors for Depression in Intensive Care Unit Patients

Sherif Abdelmonem, PhD1, Ghada Abdel Hadi, PhD2, Akram Fayed, PhD1, Iman El Sayed, PhD3* and Khaled Mogazy, MSc1

1Department of Critical Care Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

2Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

3Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Statistics, Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, Egypt

Abstract

Background

We aim to detect the prevalence and risk factors of depression in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients.

Methods

A case-control study was conducted on 159 adult patients admitted to the ICU of a governmental hospital, Alexandria, Egypt. We classified the patients using the Arabic version of Hamilton scale as either depressed or not. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were done to detect the relation between depression and different predictors after controlling the confounding effect of all other factors.

Results

The prevalence of depression in the ICU patients was 46.5%. The strongest risk factor for depression was female gender (Odds ratio (OR) 46.4, 95% CI: 11.3 to 189.9). One-year increase in age increases the odds of depression by 5% (OR 1.05, 95% CI: 1.01 to 1.09). The odds of depression increased 22 times more in mechanically ventilated patients (OR 22.95% CI: 4.78 to 101.85). The OR of depression was 4.39 (95% CI: 1.29 to 14.97) among patients with cardiac arrest history.

Conclusion

The high prevalence of depression among ICU patients requires attention especially among old female patients, those on mechanical ventilation and those with previous cardiac arrest history.