Mental Health Assessment in Hospitalised Patients In The Department Of General Surgery

Abstract

Mental health is “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. The goal of the study was to describe the mental health status in hospitalized patients in general surgery department. An educational observational study was carried out among 50 samples in the Department of General surgery, ESI PGIMSR, and Rajajinagar The data was collected by using global mental health assessment tool questionnaire (GMHAT). All information’s were processed and analyzed by using Microsoft excel. From the department of general surgery, the number of patients included from the male ward was 30; the majority of patients were from the age group of 46-55 (33.33%), with a mean age of 47.63 ± 12.18 years. In the female ward, the number of patients included was 20; the majority of patients were from the age group of 46-55 (30%), with a mean age of 51.75 ± 13.36 years. Based on the gender, the majority of patients were male, with 30 (60%) and the minority of them were females, 20 (40%). Compared to all the mental health diseases majority of the people said that thought disorders and psychotic symptoms as none and majority of the people said that do not have any severity. In this study, mental health almost all of the patients had responded as mild to moderate and for the severity they have responded very low. Out of 50 patients using Mann-Whitney U test, the p-value was found to be less than significant level. So, there is a significant difference in between gender and anxiety levels. And also, there was a significant difference in between the gender and panic attack levels using same statistical analysis.