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| A comparison of self-reported function assessed before and after depression treatment among depressed geriatric inpatients | | Author(s) | Robin J Casten, Barry W Rovner, Rona E Pasternak |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 15, no 9, September 2000 |
| Pages | pp 813-818 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Psychogeriatric patients ; Attitude ; Psychiatric treatment ; Longitudinal surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The study's purpose was to determine whether self-perceptions of depressed geriatric psychiatry inpatients improved as their depression resolved. 64 older people diagnosed with major depression were asked to evaluate their function on admission to an inpatient psychiatry unit, and again 3 months post-discharge. Caregivers also rated the patients' function at admission and 3 months after being discharged. Self-perceptions of function improved over time, while caregivers' perceptions remained stable, suggesting that patients' perceptions of function is in part influenced by their depression. Further, correlations between patient and caregiver perceptions of function were higher at 3 months post discharge (when patients were not depressed) than they were at admission. The implication is that self-perceptions of function are more accurate when not depressed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001107208 A |
| Classmark | ENR: LF:E: DP: LP: 3J: 7T |
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