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| Depression and anxiety disorders among Jews from the former Soviet Union five years after their immigration to Israel | | Author(s) | Nelly Zilber, Yaakov Lerner, Raphael Eidelman |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 16, no 10, October 2001 |
| Pages | pp 993-999 |
| Keywords | Jewish ; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ; Depression ; Anxiety ; Immigrants ; Longitudinal surveys ; Israel. |
| Annotation | Epidemiological studies have shown that the prevalence rates of major depression and anxiety are lower in older people than in younger adults. The authors found in another survey that, for immigrants, the association of age with psychological distress was the reverse. The present study's objective was to examine, in immigrants, whether the relationship of age with clinically diagnosed depression and anxiety disorders is also reversed. A stratified subsample of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who arrived in Israel in 1990 was chosen to include an over-representation of those with a high level of distress, to increase the probability of finding people suffering from psychopathology. Subjects were interviewed with an abbreviated version of the Composite International Diagnostic Instrument (CIDI-S). Before immigration, incidence rates of depression and anxiety were lower in older (age 65+) than in younger adults, a finding consistent with the literature. However, after immigration, the reverse was found, with higher prevalence and incidence rates among older immigrants. The data suggest that immigration contributes to an increase in psychopathology which is particularly pronounced in older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-011115209 A |
| Classmark | TKS: 7AA: ENR: ENP: TJ: 3J: 7H6 |
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