Vanmathi A¹, Praveen Kulkarni², Dennis Chauhan³, Sunil Kumar D⁴, Prathiba Periera⁵, Kishor M⁶, Sayana Basheer⁷

¹Post graduate, Department of community medicine, JSS Medical College, Mysuru-570015, Karnataka, India, email id-vanmathianbu09@gmail.com

²Associate dean, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research and Vice Principal, JSS Medical College, Mysuru-570015, Karnataka, India email id: prakulfi@gmail.com

³Director, Department of health and community-based program, Vivekananda memorial hospital, Sargur, -571121, Karnataka, India, email id: dennis@svym.org.in  

⁴Head of the department, Department of community medicine, JSS Medical College, Mysuru-570015, Karnataka, India, email id: sunilkumard@jssuni.edu.in

⁵Professor, Department of geriatric medicine, JSS Medical college hospital, Mysuru-570015, Karnataka, India, email id: ppatta08@gmail.com

⁶Associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, JSS Medical college hospital, Mysuru-570015, Karnataka, India, email id: rkishormd@gmail.com

⁷Postgraduate, Department of community medicine, JSS Medical College, Mysuru-570015, Karnataka, India, email id: dr.sayanabasheer@gmail.com

Corresponding author: Vanmathi A, Postgraduate department of community medicine, JSS Medical College, Mysuru-570015, Karnataka, India. Contact: +918489994344, Email: vanmathianbu09@gmail.com

Citation: Vanmathi A, Praveen Kulkarni, Dennis Chauhan, Sunil Kumar D, Prathiba Periera, Kishor M, Sayana Basheer (2023) Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment and its Associated Factors among Elders in the Tribal Areas of Mysuru Districts. Int J Fam Med Pub Health, 2(1);1-9.

Copyrights: © 2023, Vanmathi A, et al., This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract:

Background: Ageing is an inevitable biological process. Cognitive impairment affects the quality of life of elders. Understanding the factors associated with cognitive impairment and appropriate management help in delaying cognitive impairment. Most of the studies done in this background were in urban areas. Hence the present study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of cognitive impairment and its associated factors among tribal elders. Methodology: It was a cross-sectional study conducted among elders >60 years residing in the tribal areas of the Mysuru district. Based on the reported prevalence of cognitive dysfunction among the elderly to be 25% (Rakesh M Patel et al), with 5% absolute allowable error, 5% of alpha error, and 10% non-response rate the total sample size for the study is calculated as 316. WHO- 30 cluster sampling was used. MOCA-B was used for assessing cognition. Results: 95.3% had cognitive impairment, and factors like gender, education, Physical, financial, and emotional dependency, and treatment modalities were associated with cognition. Conclusion: The study showed that most of the elders in the tribal area had cognitive impairment, thus in addition to physical health problems, we should examine elderly persons for potential psychological diseases such as cognitive dysfunction for early diagnosis and treatment.

Keywords: Elders, Tribal areas, Cognition, MoCA-B.