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| The impact of religious practice and religious coping on geriatric depression | | Author(s) | Hayden B Bosworth, Kwang-Soo Park, Douglas R McQuoid |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 18, no 10, October 2003 |
| Pages | pp 905-914 |
| Keywords | Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Adjustment ; Depression ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Both religiousness and social support have been shown to influence depression outcome, yet some some researchers have theorised that religiousness largely reflects social support. 114 depressed patients at the Duke University Medical Centre's Mental Health Clinical Research Center (MHCRC) completed a range of measures of public and religious practice. A geriatric psychiatrist completed the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) at baseline and 6 months. Both positive and negative religious coping were related to MADRS scores in treated individuals, and positive coping was related to MADRS 6 months later, independent of social support measures, demographic and clinical measures (e.g. use of electroconvulsive therapy - ECT, number of depressed episodes). Public but not private religious practice was independently related to MADRS scores st the time of completion of the religiousness measures. Religious coping was related to social support, but was independently related to depression outcome. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-031106204 A |
| Classmark | EX: DR: ENR: 49: 7T |
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