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A community-based study of depression in older people in Hefei, China
— the GMS-AGECAT prevalence, case validation and socio-economic correlates | | Author(s) | Ruoling Chen, Zhu Hu, Xiaochao Qin |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 19, no 5, May 2004 |
| Pages | pp 407-413 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Living in the community ; Evaluation ; China. |
| Annotation | This community-based study of 175 people aged 65+ in Hefei city, suggested a low prevalence of depression in older people in urban China. 39 depressed cases were diagnosed by the GMS-AGECAT. Age-standardised prevalence was 2.2%, which was about five times lower than those of older people in Liverpool. Approved training in the use of the GMS-AGECAT in mainland China should make it possible to carry out a large-scale epidemiological study of depression in Chinese older people to investigate its geographical variation and risk factors. The dose-response relation between socio-economic deprivation and depression indicates that strategies for tackling inequality in depression in older people are urgently needed in China. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040622203 A |
| Classmark | ENR: F: K4: 4C: 7DC |
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