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Intergenerational differences in the reporting of elders' anxiety
Author(s)	Becca R Levy, Kevin Conway, Jessica Brommelhoff
Journal title	Journal of Mental Health and Aging, vol 9 no 4, Winter 2003
Pages	pp 233-242
Keywords	Anxiety ; Symptoms ; Diagnosis ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	This study examined whether the lower rate of anxiety in old age, as presented in a number of studies, may be due to older individuals having a greater reluctance than younger individuals to report anxiety symptoms. The authors examined 167 family-member pairs, in which the self-reported anxiety symptoms did not match family-reported anxiety symptoms in the same individual. As expected, the authors found that older people were less likely than younger adults to report anxiety symptoms in themselves when a family member reported their having anxiety symptoms. Also as expected, older people were less likely to identify anxiety symptoms to another family member, who self-reported anxiety symptoms. This study suggests that older individuals minimise the reporting of anxiety symptoms, and therefore, the risk of experiencing anxiety in old age may be higher than previously thought. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-040720211 A
Classmark	ENP: CT: LK7: 3KB: 7T
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