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Symptoms of depression in older adults with multiple sclerosis (MS)
— comparison with a matched sample of younger adults | | Author(s) | I I Kneebone, E C Dunmore, E Evans |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 7, no 3, May 2003 |
| Pages | pp 182-185 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Physical disabilities ; Age groups [elderly] ; Young adults [20-25] ; Comparison. |
| Annotation | The depression scores of 27 people aged 65+ with multiple sclerosis (MS) were compared with those of a matched sample of younger adults, both from the same survey of 529 people. The association between cognitive (attitudinal) variables known to explain significant variance in depressive symptoms in younger adults with MS was then considered in the older adult sample. Consistent with findings from studies with general community samples, older people with MS reported significantly fewer depressive symptoms than younger people with MS. The relationship between cognitive variables and depressive symptoms found previously in younger adults was also evident for the older adults. MS-related helplessness was found to be significantly higher in older as opposed to younger adults with MS, the opposite of what was predicted, given differences between the groups in depression scores. Differences in cognitive variables do not appear to explain differences between younger and older people with MS in terms of depressive symptoms. Support is offered for the view that a decrease in emotional responsiveness may explain differences in depressive symptoms between younger and older people with MS, rather than this being the result of emotional control exerted via cognitive means. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030806212 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: BN: BB: SD6: 48 |
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