Abstract

Aim: To evaluate the psychiatric morbidity using MINI questionnaire in patients diagnosed with
CKD.
Materials and Methods: Total 170 patients were interviewed over a period of one and a half
year starting from January 2014. Each patient was assessed twice: at the baseline and after 3
months. Patients were approached and after obtaining their consent, information was collected
about their socio-demographic details like age, sex, marital status and religion, duration of renal
illness (CKD). Each patient was then screened for psychiatric morbidity using MINI
questionnaire. Patients were then divided into two groups: those having psychiatric morbidity
and those without. The collected data was compiled in MS Excel sheet 2007. For analyses of this
data SPSS version 20 for Windows 7 was used.
Results: The study population consisted of patients between the ages of 18 to 72 years with the
mean age of 40.8(SD=14.8). There were 120 males (70.6%) and 50 females (29.4%) in the study
population. There were 134 married (78.8%), 30 single (17.6%) and 6 widowers (3.5%) in our
study population. 42 (24.70%) had a diagnosable psychiatric morbidity on Mini International
Neuropsychiatric Interview. The most common psychiatric diagnosis found in our study was
Major depressive disorder that was seen in 88.09% (n=37) patients followed by Generalized
anxiety disorder, which was seen in 3 patients (7.14%). Psychiatric morbidity was highest in the
age group of 51-60 years. Significant association was found between age group and psychiatric
morbidity (p<0.001). The impact of duration of illness and psychiatric morbidity revealed
significant association between these two factors (p<0.0001).