Relationship between Balance and Depression in Elderly

Kumar, Robins; Aikat, Ruby; Banerjee, Alakananda

doi:10.2316/p.2012.766-022

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“…Kumar and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study [6] on 104 subjects, who were found through convenient sampling of community dwelling elderly in Delhi and Gurgaon, India. The inclusion criteria of the study were age of elderly 60 years and above, both males and females, and the subjects should have the ability to read and understand either Hindi or English.…”

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“…The data was then analyzed by statistical software, as described further by Kumar and colleagues [6], where the descriptive statistics were calculated for the age, BBS, GDS, and frequency statistics of Gender. The Pearson correlation and regression analysis were applied to find out the relationship between age, BBS, and GDS.…”

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“…Following the preliminary cross-sectional study by Kumar and colleagues [6], a convenient subsampling of the community dwelling elderly in India was conducted to select 24 elderly (>60 years) subjects, such that they covered a wide range of BBS and GDS scores. All subjects gave their informed consent for the experiments in compliance with the Helsinki Declaration.…”

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“…In fact, Indian health ministry's working group on noncommunicable disease burden [3] noted that “India will soon become home to the second largest number of elderly in the world. The challenges are unique with this population in India.” In accordance, Kumar and colleagues at the Dharma Foundation of India (DFI) conducted a preliminary cross-sectional study on 95 elderly (age > 60 years) subjects from New Delhi and Gurgaon, India [6]. They investigated psychomotor aspects of depression where they found a negative correlation between the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) score [7] and the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) score [8].…”

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A Low-Cost Point-of-Care Testing System for Psychomotor Symptoms of Depression Affecting Standing Balance: A Preliminary Study in India

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The World Health Organization estimated that major depression is the fourth most significant cause of disability worldwide for people aged 65 and older, where depressed older adults reported decreased independence, poor health, poor quality of life, functional decline, disability, and increased chronic medical problems. Therefore, the objectives of this study were (1) to develop a low-cost point-of-care testing system for psychomotor symptoms of depression and (2) to evaluate the system in community dwelling elderly in India. The preliminary results from the cross-sectional study showed a significant negative linear correlation between balance and depression. Here, monitoring quantitative electroencephalography along with the center of pressure for cued response time during functional reach tasks may provide insights into the psychomotor symptoms of depression where average slope of the Theta-Alpha power ratio versus average slope of baseline-normalized response time may be a candidate biomarker, which remains to be evaluated in our future clinical studies. Once validated, the biomarker can be used for monitoring the outcome of a comprehensive therapy program in conjunction with pharmacological interventions. Furthermore, the frequency of falls can be monitored with a mobile phone-based application where the propensity of falls during the periods of psychomotor symptoms of depression can be investigated further.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%