A RESEARCH STUDY TO ASCERTAIN THE RESTLESSNESS FACTOR AMONG THE PATIENTS OF HEPATITIS C INFECTION

Background: All around the globe, the health of people has suffered due to infection of hepatitis C. Experts are of the view that interferon therapy is not established, depression can be the outcome of Hepatitis C Infection. Objective: The objective of the research was to determine the restlessness in patients of Hepatitis C. Patients and Methods: The time duration of this research span from January 2017 to May 2017. The research was organized at Mayo Hospital, Lahore on a total of 100 patients including 42 male and 58 female patients. These patients were presented in the outdoor patients’ department. These patients were positive for HCV and were not treated for the management of the disease. The interview was taken from these patients. Results were entered in a Performa and Hamilton Rating Scale for depression. SPSS was used for data assessment. Results: 37.82 years was the mean age of all the participants. The number of patients found with depression, mild depression, moderate depression, severe depression and very severe depression was respectively 38%, 12%, 20%, 4% and 2%. Conclusion: It is concluded by the results that non treated patients of hepatitis C were depressed. It also indicated that Hepatitis C may also cause depression among patients. Keywords: Hepatitis C, Infection, Depression, Hamilton Rating Scale and Disease Management