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Toward a threshold for subthreshold depression
— an analysis of correlates of depression by severity of symptoms using data from an elderly community sample | | Author(s) | Celia F Hybels, Dan G Blazer, Carl F Pieper |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 41, no 3, June 2001 |
| Pages | pp 357-365 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Living in the community ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The prevalence of depressive symptoms in older people is high, yet the criteria to identify clinically significant depression may leave many undiagnosed and untreated. Demographic and risk factor profiles of two groups - one with severe depression, and one with less severe depression - are explored. Data are from the Duke University Established Populations for Epidemiological Studies of the Elderly (EPESE) baseline survey of 4,162 community-dwelling people aged 65+. Using criteria of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression scale (CES-D), prevalence of depression was 9.1%, and for sub-threshold depression 9.9%. Both types of depression were associated with impairment in physical functioning, disability days, poorer self-rated health, use of psychotropic medication, perceived low social support, female gender, and being unmarried. Depression appears to exist along a continuum, with demographic, social and physical health predictors of sub-treshhold depression similar to predictors of depression as defined by the CES-D scale. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010718217 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: K4: 4C: 7T |
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