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| Gender differences of depressive symptoms in depressed and nondepressed elderly persons | | Author(s) | M Kockler, R Heun |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 17, no 1, January 2002 |
| Pages | pp pp 65-72 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Older men ; Older women ; Germany. |
| Annotation | In the course of a family study in Germany, 236 subjects with a lifetime diagnosis of major depression aged 50+ and 357 controls from the general population matched for age and gender were questioned using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). Chi-square tests were used to compare the individual depressive symptoms between men and women, and logistic regression analyses performed to account for subjects' age, cognitive performance, family and employment status. Women in the general population suffered from more depressive symptoms than men, and had more appetite disturbance and joylessness. These gender differences could be entirely explained by gender differences in the family and in employment status. The results suggest that the gender differences in the symptoms of major depression in older people reflect gender differences in the perception and the expression of depressive syndromes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020212217 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: BC: BD: 767 |
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