ArticleIndian journal of psychiatry2025
Undetected comorbidities in older adults with serious mental illness, and opportunities for screening - A cross-sectional study from Kerala.
Article in Indian journal of psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
Abstract
Background: The Older adults with serious mental illness (OASMI) have a shorter life expectancy than the general population. Comorbidities are mainly responsible for this "mortality gap." India lacks field studies on comorbidities among the OASMI. Aim: We aimed to determine the prevalence of self-reported medical comorbidities and associated factors among the OASMI in Kerala living in the community. Materials and Methods: The present study is a part of the Support system Evaluation of Neuropsychiatric Illness in Old age (SENIOR) research project. SENIOR used a cross-sectional study design, among OASMI participants identified through multistage cluster sampling from three districts in Kerala. For data collection trained research fellows conducted participant interviews at the participant households. The analysis of self-reported comorbidities for this paper was a secondary analysis derived from the primary data of the SENIOR study. Results: More than half (53.98%) of the 917 OASMI participants self-reported at least one medical comorbidity, with hypertension (32.2%) and diabetes (25.1%) being the most common. Reported comorbidity prevalence was lower, among those without partners ( Conclusion: The lower prevalence of self-reported comorbidity in our study indicates that comorbidities among the OASMI often go undetected. To address this issue, we propose that their contact with the healthcare system/provider must be utilized for comorbidities screening, and awareness on this created among all stakeholders. Implementing targeted screening for high-risk OASMI groups identified in our study can help narrow their mortality gap.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.