Psychiatry research and prevalence of psychiatric disorders among tribal populations of India: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Background: The tribal population in India is characterized by low socioeconomic status and facing issues like marginalization, discrimination, cultural disruption, and displacement. These challenges have significant effects on their mental health, but research on psychiatric conditions among them i...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
2025-02-01
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| Series: | Indian Journal of Psychiatry |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/indianjpsychiatry.indianjpsychiatry_869_24 |
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| Summary: | Background:
The tribal population in India is characterized by low socioeconomic status and facing issues like marginalization, discrimination, cultural disruption, and displacement. These challenges have significant effects on their mental health, but research on psychiatric conditions among them is limited.
Aim:
We aim to find existing psychiatry literature and to estimate the prevalence of depression and anxiety among them.
Methods:
We carried out systematic searches across several databases like PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, Cochrane, EBSCOhost, ProQuest (Health research collections), PsycNet, Ovid, and Google Scholar, without limiting the publication period.
Results:
Our search yielded 107 relevant articles, which included systematic reviews, prevalence studies, review articles, scale development studies, intervention studies, qualitative and miscellaneous studies. The prevalence of mental health disorders varied across the studies with depression ranging from 3% to 43%, anxiety upto 8%, mania from 0.04% to 0.39%, schizophrenia from 0.07% to 0.52%, intellectual disability from 0.1% to 0.6%, epilepsy from 0.2% to 1.03%, and dementia or cognitive impairment from 0% to 42.92%. Meta-analysis, of studies on depression, 15 studies were included, and the pooled prevalence was found to be 14% (with a confidence interval of 8% to 22%). For anxiety disorders, 8 studies showed a pooled prevalence of 3% (confidence interval 0% to 7%). In conclusion, this systematic review found 107 relevant studies.
Conclusion:
Meta-analysis showed that the prevalence of depression among India’s tribal population is about 14%, and anxiety disorders are present in 3% of the population.” |
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| ISSN: | 0019-5545 1998-3794 |