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Late life depression in primary care
— a nationwide Italian epidemiological survey | | Author(s) | Domenico Berardi, Marco Menchetti, Diana De Ronchi |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 50, no 1, January 2002 |
| Pages | pp 77-83 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Ill health ; General practice ; Clinical surveys ; Italy. |
| Annotation | In this Italian study, primary care physicians (PCPs) assessed probable cases of depression with the International Classification of Diseases, 10th ed (ICD-10) checklist for depression. 666 PCP patients aged 60+ and 1,290 PCP patients aged 14-59 were also screened using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12). Prevalence of current depression was 8.6%, 3.6% for syndromal depression (8.3% and 5.5%, respectively, for younger subjects). Current depression was associated with physical illness, physical disability, days lost from work or days unable to perform activities of daily living (ADLs), and frequency of PCP consultation. Comorbidity with physical illness was the hallmark of late-life depression, distinguishing this condition from depression in younger patients. Moreover, depressed older people were more disabled, and had a higher frequency of PCP consultation than younger depressed patients. Intervention programmes need to take into account the relationship between the mental, physical and functional aspects of depression. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020701203 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CH: L5: 3G: 76V |
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